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-installing-opensolaris-snv_72 Samba talking to OS X is kind of slow, but that seems to be the Mac's fault, and I haven't had time to do any tuning yet. Scott On 11/10/07, Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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/motherboards: > > AMD Athlon64 3000+ (64 bit) > DFI LanParty UT 250gb (NForce 3 based) motherboard > 32 bit PCI slots only > 2GB RAM > > or > > Dual Intel Xeon 1.6GHz CPUs (32 bit) > ASUS PCH-DL motherboard > PCI-X slots @ 66MHz > 2GB RAM > > I am trying to figure out where my bottleneck will be for file transfers. > Will it be the controller card running in a regular PCI slot on the AMD > setup? Will it be the 32 bit Intel system? Or will using samba overshadow > either of the hardware options? Any suggestions would be greatly > appreciated. Thanks. > > Matt > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
