>Another thing to remember is the expansion slots. You mentioned putting >in a SATA controller for more drives, You'll want to make sure the board >has a slot that can handle the card you want. If you're not using >graphics then any board with a single PCI-E x16 slot should handle >anything. But if you do put in a graphics board you'll want to look at >what other slots are available. Not many consumer boards have PCI-X >slots, and only some have PCI-E x4 slots. PCI-E x1 slots are getting >scarce too. Most of the PCI-E SATA controlers I've seen want a slot at >least x4, and many are x8.
Better check that, almost *all* consumer boards that have 1 16 lane PCIe slot can only have use a graphics card in that slot. I can confirm this to be true and most Intel boards are that way and some Asus boards I have used behave this way as well. As far as ECC for a home system, I run two ESXi servers, an asterisk PBX, a red hat iSCSI server etc etc all on commodity mobo's without ECC and have perfect uptime. I wouldn't do this at work, but for the 1/2 dozen people that use it _at home_, it works perfectly. jlc _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
