Brandon High wrote: > On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Orvar Korvar > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> In a PCI-X slot, you will reach something like 1.5GB/sec which should >> suffice for most needs. Maybe it is cheaper to buy that card + PCI-X >> motherboard (only found on server mobos) than buying a SAS or PCI-express, >> if you want to achieve speed? >> > > That's my thought as well. I'm going to be putting together a home NAS > based on OpenSolaris using the following: > 1 SUPERMICRO CSE-743T-645B Black Chassis > 1 ASUS M2N-LR AM2 NVIDIA nForce Professional 3600 ATX Server Motherboard > 1 SUPERMICRO AOC-SAT2-MV8 64-bit PCI-X133MHz SATA Controller Card > 1 AMD Athlon X2 4850e 2.5GHz Socket AM2 45W Dual-Core Processor Model > ADH4850DOBOX > 1 Crucial 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) ECC > Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit Server Memory Model CT2KIT25672AA667 > 8 Western Digital Caviar GP WD10EACS 1TB 5400 to 7200 RPM SATA > 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive > > Subtotal: $2,386.88 > > I may get another drive for the OS as well, or boot off of a > CF-card/IDE adapter like this one: > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812186038 > > -B >
One thought on this: for a small server, which is unlikely to ever be CPU bound, I would suggest looking for an older dual-Socket 940 Opteron motherboard. They almost all have many PCI-X slots, and single-core Opterons are dirt cheap. PC3200 DDR1 ECC ram is also cheap too. Tyan/Supermicro dual-Socket 940 motherboard: < $200 Opteron 252 (2.4Ghz) + heatsink < $75 Opteron 280 (dual-core 2.4Ghz) + heatsink < $180 4x1GB ECC DDR1 PC3200 ram < $150 The only drawback of the older Socket 940 Opterons is that they don't support the hardware VT extensions, so running a Windows guest under xVM on them isn't currently possible. -- Erik Trimble Java System Support Mailstop: usca22-123 Phone: x17195 Santa Clara, CA Timezone: US/Pacific (GMT-0800) _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
