I'm running ZFS on nevada (b94 and b98) on two machines at home, both with 4 gig ram. one has a quad core intel core2 w/ ECC ram, the other has normal RAM and an athlon 64 dual-core low power. both seem to be working great.
On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Peter Bridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking to buy some new hardware to build a home ZFS based NAS. I know > ZFS can be quite CPU/mem hungry and I'd appreciate some opinions on the > following combination: > > Intel Essential Series D945GCLF2 > Kingston ValueRAM DIMM 2GB PC2-5300U CL5 (DDR2-667) (KVR667D2N5/2G) > > Firstly, does it sound like a reasonable combination to run OpenSolaris? > > Will Solaris make use of both processors? / all cores? > > Is it going to be enough power to run ZFS? > > I read that ZFS prefers 64bit, but it's not clear to me if the above board > will provide 64bit support. > > Also I already have 2 SATA II disks to throw in (using both onboard SATA II > ports), but ideally I would like to add a OS suitable PCI SATA card to add > maybe another 4 disks. Any suggestions on a suitable card please? > > Cheers > Peter > -- > 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
