Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 13:06:02 +0100 From: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> To: aragon@phat.za.net, tj@tjvarghese.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reecommendations for an 'appliance" platform ? Message-ID: <E1MFoTK-0006tT-Aa@dilbert.ticketswitch.com> In-Reply-To: <4A34DA2D.1070104@tjvarghese.com>
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> I've tried the Atom330 (D945GCLF2). It works fine with amd64...however > it's rather wasted for 64bit considering it maxes out at 2gb. But I > suppose if you wanted to standardize on amd64 installs, this is good. Size of memory doesnt bother me really - I made the move to amd64 because of the extra performance due to the extra registers (about 8% on my application, I realise that not everyone gets a speedup). Given the fact I am also moving to ZFS, and that works a lot better on amd64, then I am not keen to go back ;-) > Gigabit - ok, re0. You'll need 7.2 at least. > USB - ok > SATA - 2 ports tested only with gmirror, ok. Those three are very good to know work - the box will be headless, so I just need ether and booting to work fine. Am always wary of re0 ethernets as have been bitten in the past. Thanks for all the advice from eeryone in this thread - I have narrowed the choice down to either the Tranquil PC unit, or the Shuttle X27D, which is also Atom 330 based. Given the price I may simply buy one of each and evaluate which is better. Will report back if so. cheers, -pete.
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