Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 22:33:10 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hardware for home use large storage Message-ID: <20100209063310.GA23387@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <4B70FEEC.6070007@modulus.org> References: <4B6F9A8D.4050907@langille.org> <alpine.OSX.2.00.1002090103520.982@hotlap.local> <4B70FEEC.6070007@modulus.org>
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On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 05:21:32PM +1100, Andrew Snow wrote: > http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA.cfm?typ=H > > Supermicro just released a new Mini-ITX fanless Atom server board > with 6xSATA ports (based on Intel ICH9) and a PCIe 16x slot. It > takes up to 4GB of RAM, and there's even a version with KVM-over-LAN > for headless operation and remote management. Neat hardware. But with regards to the KVM-over-LAN stuff: it's IPMI, and Supermicro has a very, *very* long history of having shoddy IPMI support. I've been told the latter by too many different individuals in the industry (some co-workers, some work at Yahoo, some at Rackable, etc.) for me to rely on it. If you *have* to go this route, make sure you get the IPMI module which has its own dedicated LAN port on the module and ***does not*** piggyback on top of an existing LAN port on the mainboard. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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