Put your money into RAM, especially for dedup. -- richard On Feb 4, 2010, at 3:19 PM, Brian 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. > > For items such as de-dupliciation, compression, checksums etc. Is it better > to get a faster clock speed or should I consider more cores? I know certain > functions such as compression may run on multiple cores. > > I have so far narrowed it down to: > > AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition Callisto 3.1GHz > and > AMD Phenom X4 9150e Agena 1.8GHz Socket AM2+ 65W Quad-Core > > As they are roughly the same price. > -- > 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
