Am 26.01.2010 00:15, schrieb Daniel O'Connor: > On Tue, 26 Jan 2010, Dan Naumov wrote: >> CPU-performance-wise, I am not really worried. The current system is >> an Atom 330 and even that is a bit overkill for what I do with it and >> from what I am seeing, the new Atom D510 used on those boards is a >> tiny bit faster. What I want and care about for this system are >> reliability, stability, low power use, quietness and fast disk >> read/write speeds. I've been hearing some praise of ICH9R and 6 >> native SATA ports should be enough for my needs. AFAIK, the Intel >> 82574L network cards included on those are also very well supported? > > You might want to consider an Athlon (maybe underclock it) - the AMD IXP > 700/800 south bridge seems to work well with FreeBSD (in my > experience). > > These boards (eg Gigabyte GA-MA785GM-US2H) have 6 SATA ports (one may be > eSATA though) and PATA, they seem ideal really.. You can use PATA with > CF to boot and connect 5 disks plus a DVD drive. > > The CPU is not fanless however, but the other stuff is, on the plus side > you won't have to worry about CPU power :) > > Also, the onboard video works well with radeonhd and is quite fast. > > One other downside is the onboard network isn't great (Realtek) but I > put an em card in mine.
If neither an Atom 330 nor a cheap Athlon 64 do not offer sufficient performance, the new i3-530 and H55 chip-set may be a much faster alternative (with lower power consumption than the Athlon 64). This combination is more expensive (official CPU list price $113) but a CPU plus uATX mainboard should still be under $200 (e.g. the MSI H55M-E33, or if you want an ITX form factor mainboard, the Zotac H55-ITX). Idle power of a small system (incl. 2.5" disk) has been reported as low as 20W (primary power, efficient 120W power supply), with throughput near that of low end quad CPUs. Regards, STefan _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
