I just built a zfs storage box, and i have to disagree with beardal, zfs caching mechanisms will happily use as much memory as it can get.
My config: Asus P5M2-SAS (Intel 3000 northbridge + ICH7 southbridge) integrated lsi 1068 sas/sata controller with 8 sas/sata ports, 4 sata ports from the ich7 southbridge, dual bcm5271 gigabit ethernet, pci-e, pci-x, and pci slots, and integrated ati es1000 gfx. 10 - samsung F1 HD103J 1TB drives (8 on the lsi controller, 2 on the ich7) - RAIDZ 2 -seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3250410AS 250gb drives - (SVM mirrored) 8gb ram (4x2gb ddr667 sticks) intel core2quad qx6600 Everything on the board is supported, and having the sas/sata controller on board was cheaper than most add in alternatives i found. also you get all 3 slot types on one board and the option for an IPMI remote management card. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
