Use froogle for price checking. I don't know what chipsets are supported by opensolaris, but if I were you I'd be looking hard at motherboards with as much integrated as possible. For instance, for less than $100 you can get a mini-atx motherboard with 6 SATA ports and onboard video. I found this out just by clicking the appropriate categories on the left side of newegg. Example: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010200022+107192530&name=NVIDIA+GeForce+8000
Pair a motherboard like that with the cheapest processor possible, a case that comes with a power supply, and a hard drive bay for the 5.25" case bays, and you're off like a bride's pajamas! I'd get wd6400aaks or wd7500aacs drives. the aacs (GP) drives are 5400rpm and vibrate less, which will cause less noise problems in most cases, if you know what I mean. As a bonus, some of the consumer AMD chipsets are compatible with unbuffered ECC memory, so you can use this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820146525 . The memory you chose is not what you need. DDR2 667mhz * 2 is 1333mhz, which is a faster bus speed than the processor you chose. So you won't even use all the speed of 667 memory, not to mention the 800 memory you chose. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
