On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Joe S <js.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > In the last few weeks, I've seen a number of new NAS devices released > from companies like HP, QNAP, VIA, Lacie, Buffalo, Iomega, > Cisco/Linksys, etc. Most of these are powered by Intel Celeron, Intel > Atom, AMD Sempron, Marvell Orion, or Via C7 chips. I've also noticed > that most allow a maximum of 1 or 2 GB of RAM. > > Is it likely that any of these will run OpenSolaris?
In theory, the Atom platform will run it. The 945 chipset is supported and the Atom 230 and 330 (which are on Intel's motherboard bundle) support x86-64 extensions. Some boards come with a CF card adapter for booting, too. The platform doesn't support ECC memory and doesn't support more than 2GB of memory. The 945 only supports 2 SATA ports and all the boards I've seen have only a single PCI slot, which limit the number of drives you can use. Due to the relatively poor CPU performance, it probably would suck for any volume with compression enabled as well. I'm tempted to buy and Atom board (they're about $85, plus $20 for RAM) with a Supermicro 8-port PCI card (~ $95) to play with. $200 for (very) base NAS hardware is not bad, though a case with 8 or more drive bays may be $300+. This puts the cost below something like the ReadyNAS or HP home server. While you gain more functionality, it forces you to handle the build and administration overhead. -B -- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
