I am Starting to put together a home NAS server that will have the following roles:
(1) Store TV recordings from SageTV over either iSCSI or CIFS. Up to 4 or 5 HD streams at a time. These will be streamed live to the NAS box during recording. (2) Playback TV (could be stream being recorded, could be others) to 3 or more extenders (3) Hold a music repository (4) Hold backups from windows machines, mac (time machine), linux. (5) Be an iSCSI target for several different Virtual Boxes. Function 4 will use compression and deduplication. Function 5 will use deduplication. I plan to start with 5 1.5 TB drives in a raidz2 configuration and 2 mirrored boot drives. I have been reading these forums off and on for about 6 months trying to figure out how to best piece together this system. I am first trying to select the CPU. I am leaning towards AMD because of ECC support and power consumption. For items such as de-dupliciation, compression, checksums etc. Is it better to get a faster clock speed or should I consider more cores? I know certain functions such as compression may run on multiple cores. I have so far narrowed it down to: AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition Callisto 3.1GHz and AMD Phenom X4 9150e Agena 1.8GHz Socket AM2+ 65W Quad-Core As they are roughly the same price. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss