From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 8 05:27:02 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 0E1FD106566C for ; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 05:27:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A4428FC14 for ; Mon, 8 Feb 2010 05:27:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au ([203.31.81.30]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o185QvsC056285 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:56:57 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 15:56:46 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <4B6F9A8D.4050907@langille.org> In-Reply-To: <4B6F9A8D.4050907@langille.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1276947.7vxR9E8l1F"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201002081556.54782.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -3.641 () ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Dan Langille Subject: Re: hardware for home use large storage 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, 08 Feb 2010 05:27:02 -0000 --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--