Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:56:46 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org> Subject: Re: hardware for home use large storage Message-ID: <201002081556.54782.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <4B6F9A8D.4050907@langille.org> References: <4B6F9A8D.4050907@langille.org>
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--nextPart1276947.7vxR9E8l1F Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Dan Langille wrote: > Given that, what motherboard and RAM configuration would you > recommend to work with FreeBSD [and probably ZFS]. =A0The lists seems > to indicate that more RAM is better with ZFS. I have something similar (5x1Tb) - I have a Gigabyte GA-MA785GM-US2H=20 with an Athlon X2 and 4Gb of RAM (only half filled - 2x2Gb) The board has 5 SATA ports + 1 eSATA (I looped that back into the case=20 to connect to the DVD drive :). I boot it off a 4Gb CF card in an IDE adapter. I think you could boot=20 off ZFS but it seemed a bit unreliable when I installed it so I opted=20 for a more straightforward method. The CPU fan is fairly quiet (although a 3rd party one would probably be=20 quieter) and the rest of the motherboard is fanless. The onboard video works great with radeonhd (it's a workstation for=20 someone as well as a file server). Note that it doesn't support ECC, I don't know if that is a problem. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1276947.7vxR9E8l1F Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBLb6Ce5ZPcIHs/zowRAoXCAJ9ExdsaXReQJbHHDpWBZ57KM8fuXQCdGeKI W/BMdwQgYKeqCvD23Dz+bSA= =Q72s -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1276947.7vxR9E8l1F--
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