IMHO, a better investment is in the NVidia MCP-55 chipsets which support more than 4 SATA ports. The NForce 680a boasts 12 SATA ports. Nevada builds 72+ should see these as SATA drives using the nv_sata driver and not as ATA/IDE disks. -- richard
Christopher wrote: > I'm new to the list so this is probably a noob question: Are this forum part > of a mailinglist or something? I keep getting some answers to my posts in > this thread on email as well as some here, but it seems that those > answers/posts on email aren't posted on this forum..?? Or do I just get a > copy on email from what ppl post here on the forum? > > Georg Edelmann wrote me on email saying he was interested in making a > homeserver/nas as I'm about to (try to) do and wanted to know my hardware etc. > > What I was thinking of using for this server was Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe with > some kind of AMD64 CPU, probably the cheapest X2 I can find and pair it with > 1 or perhaps 2GB of RAM. The mainbord has 8 SATA onboard, 4 nvidia and 4 > sil3114. I was also gonna get a 2sata add-on controller card, totalling 10 > sata ports. But now I'm not sure, since alhopper just said the performance of > the 3114 is poor. > > Blake, on the other hand mentioned the Sil3114 as a controller chip to use. I > will of course not make use of the fake-raid on the mainboard. > > Kent - I see your point and it's a good one and, but for me, I only want a > big fileserver with redundancy for my music collection, movie collection and > pictures etc. I would of course make a backup of the most important data as > well from time to time. > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
