* Brian (broco...@vt.edu) wrote: > I am Starting to put together a home NAS server that will have the > following roles: > > (1) Store TV recordings from SageTV over either iSCSI or CIFS. Up to > 4 or 5 HD streams at a time. These will be streamed live to the NAS > box during recording. (2) Playback TV (could be stream being > recorded, could be others) to 3 or more extenders (3) Hold a music > repository (4) Hold backups from windows machines, mac (time machine), > linux. (5) Be an iSCSI target for several different Virtual Boxes. > > Function 4 will use compression and deduplication. Function 5 will > use deduplication. > > I plan to start with 5 1.5 TB drives in a raidz2 configuration and 2 > mirrored boot drives. > > I have been reading these forums off and on for about 6 months trying > to figure out how to best piece together this system. > > I am first trying to select the CPU. I am leaning towards AMD because > of ECC support and power consumption.
I can't comment on most of your question, but I will point you at: http://blogs.sun.com/mhaywood/entry/powernow_for_solaris I *think* the cpu's you're looking at won't be an issue but just something to be aware of when looking at AMD kit (especially if you want to manage the processor speed). Cheers, -- Glenn _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
