On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Erik Trimble<erik.trim...@sun.com> wrote: > I can't say as to the entire Atom line of stuff, but I've found the Atoms > are OK for desktop use, and not anywhere powerful enough for even a basic > NAS server. The demands of wire-speed Gigabit, ZFS, and > encryption/compression are hard on the little Atom guys.
+1. I wanted to skip it, but will reply. I have two Asus EeePC Box 202 / 2GB. These are running numerous zones (snv_111b) for me with various services on them and still are very usable and fast enough. Additionally, I overclocked each up to 1.75GHz, did some corrections to Solaris's TCP/IP stack, removed some unnecessary services and they are just fine. > Plus, it seems to be hard to find an Atom motherboard which supports > more than 2GB of RAM, which is a serious problem. Well, let's don't forget that Atom is also smallest low-power processor and is designed for cheap and small nettops/netbooks that are don't need 4GB RAM ever. Despite of that: http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=53 -- Kind regards, BM Things, that are stupid at the beginning, rarely ends up wisely. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
