From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 25 20:57:22 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 211B1106566B; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:57:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cwhiteh@onetel.com) Received: from april.london.02.net (april.london.02.net [87.194.255.143]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E6DF8FC12; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:57:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eco.config (93.97.24.219) by april.london.02.net (8.5.016.1) id 4A23ECF807794BCD; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:57:20 +0000 Message-ID: <4B5E05B0.1050807@onetel.com> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:57:20 +0000 From: Chris Whitehouse User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20091212) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexander Motin References: <4B5DD7A2.4000101@FreeBSD.org> <4B5DE3C1.4060508@FreeBSD.org> <4B5DFE78.3010805@onetel.com> <4B5E006D.1000302@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4B5E006D.1000302@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:53:38 +0000 Cc: sub.mesa@gmail.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Pete French , Dan Naumov , Artem Belevich , freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, wonslung@gmail.com, bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:57:22 -0000 Alexander Motin wrote: > Chris Whitehouse wrote: >> Dan Naumov wrote: >>> CPU-performance-wise, I am not really worried. The current system is >>> an Atom 330 and even that is a bit overkill for what I do with it and >>> from what I am seeing, the new Atom D510 used on those boards is a >>> tiny bit faster. What I want and care about for this system are >>> reliability, stability, low power use, quietness and fast disk >>> read/write speeds. I've been hearing some praise of ICH9R and 6 native >>> SATA ports should be enough for my needs. AFAIK, the Intel 82574L >>> network cards included on those are also very well supported? >> These might be interesting then >> www.fit-pc.com >> The Intel US15W SCH chipset or System Controller Hub as it's called is >> mentioned in hardware notes for 8.0R and 7.2R but only for snd_hda, I >> don't know if this means other functions are supported or not. This >> thread says it is supported >> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-i386/2010/01/03/msg001695.html > > Intel US15W (SCH) chipset heavily stripped and tuned for netbooks. It > has no SATA, only one PATA channel. It is mostly supported by FreeBSD, > but with exception of video, which makes it close to useless. it has > only one benefit - low power consumption. > The intel spec sheet does say single PATA but according to the fit-pc website it has SATA and miniSD. Still as you say without video support it's not much use, which is useful to know as I had been looking at these. Ok I will go away now :O Chris