Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:57:20 +0000 From: Chris Whitehouse <cwhiteh@onetel.com> To: Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org> Cc: sub.mesa@gmail.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com>, Dan Naumov <dan.naumov@gmail.com>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance Message-ID: <4B5E05B0.1050807@onetel.com> In-Reply-To: <4B5E006D.1000302@FreeBSD.org> References: <deb820501001250058ye0b798ayeccb2583a08558dd@mail.gmail.com> <E1NZN87-000JtL-Gy@dilbert.ticketswitch.com> <ed91d4a81001250904p1911f2d3y7250346387e69242@mail.gmail.com> <4B5DD7A2.4000101@FreeBSD.org> <cf9b1ee01001251002x3ab0ecf6p1d8be5e31836320f@mail.gmail.com> <4B5DE3C1.4060508@FreeBSD.org> <cf9b1ee01001251039v5560eb36p31ba5930abeb8155@mail.gmail.com> <4B5DFE78.3010805@onetel.com> <4B5E006D.1000302@FreeBSD.org>
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Alexander Motin wrote: > Chris Whitehouse wrote: >> Dan Naumov wrote: >>> CPU-performance-wise, I am not really worried. The current system is >>> an Atom 330 and even that is a bit overkill for what I do with it and >>> from what I am seeing, the new Atom D510 used on those boards is a >>> tiny bit faster. What I want and care about for this system are >>> reliability, stability, low power use, quietness and fast disk >>> read/write speeds. I've been hearing some praise of ICH9R and 6 native >>> SATA ports should be enough for my needs. AFAIK, the Intel 82574L >>> network cards included on those are also very well supported? >> These might be interesting then >> www.fit-pc.com >> The Intel US15W SCH chipset or System Controller Hub as it's called is >> mentioned in hardware notes for 8.0R and 7.2R but only for snd_hda, I >> don't know if this means other functions are supported or not. This >> thread says it is supported >> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-i386/2010/01/03/msg001695.html > > Intel US15W (SCH) chipset heavily stripped and tuned for netbooks. It > has no SATA, only one PATA channel. It is mostly supported by FreeBSD, > but with exception of video, which makes it close to useless. it has > only one benefit - low power consumption. > The intel spec sheet does say single PATA but according to the fit-pc website it has SATA and miniSD. Still as you say without video support it's not much use, which is useful to know as I had been looking at these. Ok I will go away now :O Chris
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