Tim,
Nvidia is not an issue, but as a home-SERVER the multiple G-Bit Ethernets and
the multiple SATA ports are...
But, thanks for the hint!
Matthias
You (Tim Foster) wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 13:04 +0100, Matthias Pfützner - Principal Field
> Technologist - Systems Infrastructure Ambassador - Solution Architect
> wrote:
> > Super Micro has an attractive board for low power home systems:
> >
> >
> > http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA.cfm?typ=H
> >
> > Has anyone already put his hands on that thing, or knows, if the actual
> > OpenSolaris build will/does support the compleet hardware? (Aka: Network,
> > Graphics, Storage, plus "chipset")?
>
> I don't know about that board, but I've just built a small, low-power
> general purpose/3-disk NAS box with a Point of View ION-MB330-1 and
> aside from 6920337, everything's working pretty well with it on snv_131.
>
> I'll blog about the build at some stage. I went for the ION+330 board
> rather than the D510 because I wanted NVDAgraphics support. From the
> reviews I'd read, there didn't seem to be much in the performance
> difference of the processor, whereas the graphics performance was a lot
> poorer with the intel graphics.
>
> ION2 is apparently due out soon, so waiting for that might be
> worthwhile?
>
> > On a different sidenote:
> >
> > Looking at
> >
> > http://ark.intel.com/ProductCollection.aspx?familyID=29035
> >
> > Intel is offering some very low power Atoms, that also have virtualization
> > in
> > them (VT-x), anyone already seen board for/with them, and knows, if
> > OpenSolaris will work?
>
> I guess it should, though with a 4gb memory limit on many of these
> boards, would you really want to be running many guests?
>
> cheers,
> tim
>
>
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