From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 29 14:02:44 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 817D83AF for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 14:02:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dweimer@dweimer.net) Received: from webmail.dweimer.net (24-240-198-187.static.stls.mo.charter.com [24.240.198.187]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 503FE2905 for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 14:02:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from www.dweimer.net (webmail.dweimer.local [192.168.5.2]) by webmail.dweimer.net (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id r9TE2aiK034859 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 09:02:36 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dweimer@dweimer.net) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 09:02:36 -0500 From: dweimer To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Intel Core 2 DUO Organization: dweimer.net Mail-Reply-To: dweimer@dweimer.net Message-ID: X-Sender: dweimer@dweimer.net User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/0.8.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: dweimer@dweimer.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 14:02:44 -0000 I am looking at replacing an old mini tower PC running with a 900Watt power supply (simply old parts left over from PC upgrades) with a small form factor PC to run backups to eSATA with Bacula. Main goal is to cut down on the UPS load, hate having that beast of a power supply running 24/7 to only be used about 10 hours a week. I have been searching eBay, and there are a ton of Dell and HP small form factor PCs with the Intel core 2 DUO CPUs a few of which have 4G ram, for cheap. Assuming I can find one that I can put two internal drives in to run zfs mirror for FreeBSD install, does anyone have any experience on performance, will the Intel core 2 DUO, be able to handle GELI and ZFS on the eSATA disk with decent throughput? Currently running with an old AMD Athlon(tm) 7750 Dual-Core Processor (2700.06-MHz K8-class CPU), which keeps up just fine, eSATA disk drive is the slowest part on the current system. -- Thanks, Dean E. Weimer http://www.dweimer.net/