I'm looking to buy some new hardware to build a home ZFS based NAS. I know ZFS can be quite CPU/mem hungry and I'd appreciate some opinions on the following combination:
Intel Essential Series D945GCLF2 Kingston ValueRAM DIMM 2GB PC2-5300U CL5 (DDR2-667) (KVR667D2N5/2G) Firstly, does it sound like a reasonable combination to run OpenSolaris? Will Solaris make use of both processors? / all cores? Is it going to be enough power to run ZFS? I read that ZFS prefers 64bit, but it's not clear to me if the above board will provide 64bit support. Also I already have 2 SATA II disks to throw in (using both onboard SATA II ports), but ideally I would like to add a OS suitable PCI SATA card to add maybe another 4 disks. Any suggestions on a suitable card please? Cheers Peter -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
