On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 5:57 AM, W. Wayne Liauh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm a fan of ZFS since I've read about it last year. >> >> Now I'm on the way to build a home fileserver and I'm >> thinking to go with Opensolaris and eventually ZFS!! > > This seems to be a good candidate to build a home ZFS server: > > http://tinyurl.com/msi-so > > It's cheap, low power, fan-less; the only concern is the Realtek 8111C NIC. > According to a Sun Blogger, there is no Solaris driver: > > http://blogs.sun.com/roberth/entry/msi_wind_as_a_low > > (Thanks for the info) > --
>From the other reviews I've read on the Atom 230 and 270, I don't think this box has enough CPU "horsepower" for a ZFS based fileserver - or maybe I have different performance expectations than the OP. To each his own. I would like to give the list a heads-up on a mini-ITX board that is already available based on the Atom 330 - the dual core version of the chip. Here you'll find a couple of pictures of the board: http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/general-hardware-discussion/123966-intel-d945gclf2-dual-core-atom.html NB: the "2" at the end of the part # is the Atom330 based part; no "2" indicates the board with the single-core Atom. Also: the 330 has twice the cache as the single-core Atom. This board is already available for around $85. Bear in mind that the chipset used on this board dissipated around 45 Watts - so don't just look at the power dissipation numbers for the CPU. I'm not specifically recommending this board for use as a ZFS based fileserver - but it might provide a solution for someone on this list. PS: Since the Atom supports hyperthreading, the Atom 330 will appears to Solaris as 4 CPUs. Regards, -- Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc,Plano,TX [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: 972.379.2133 Timezone: US CDT OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) Member - Apr 2005 to Mar 2007 http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/ogb_2005-2007/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
