I used the Asus P5K WS motherboard with 1 PCI-X slot and an Intel
E2140 CPU (Core 2 Duo, 1.6 GHz, 64 bits, < 45W). It works fine. With
a 8 500 GB drives in a raidz2 array, I'm getting ~160 MB/sec writing
and 280 MB/sec reading.
See
http://scottstuff.net/blog/articles/2007/10/20/notes-from-insta
I would recommend the 64-bit system, but make sure your controller card
will work in it, first. The bottleneck will most likely be the incoming
network connection (100MB/s) in any case. Assuming, of course, that you
have more than one disk. With the 64-bit system, you'll run into fewer
issues in
Hi all,
I am currently planning a new home file server on a gigabit network that will
be utilizing ZFS (on SXDE). The files will be shared via samba as I have a
mixed OS environment. The controller card I will be using is the SuperMicro
SAT2-MV8 133MHz PCI-X card. I have two options for CPUs
