Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:45:57 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: sub.mesa@gmail.com, Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com>, Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org>, Dan Naumov <dan.naumov@gmail.com>, Artem Belevich <fbsdlist@src.cx>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, wonslung@gmail.com, bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance Message-ID: <201001260946.01541.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <cf9b1ee01001251039v5560eb36p31ba5930abeb8155@mail.gmail.com> References: <deb820501001250058ye0b798ayeccb2583a08558dd@mail.gmail.com> <4B5DE3C1.4060508@FreeBSD.org> <cf9b1ee01001251039v5560eb36p31ba5930abeb8155@mail.gmail.com>
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--nextPart1284787.2vsuEm6DAF Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, 26 Jan 2010, 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? You might want to consider an Athlon (maybe underclock it) - the AMD IXP=20 700/800 south bridge seems to work well with FreeBSD (in my=20 experience). These boards (eg Gigabyte GA-MA785GM-US2H) have 6 SATA ports (one may be=20 eSATA though) and PATA, they seem ideal really.. You can use PATA with=20 CF to boot and connect 5 disks plus a DVD drive. The CPU is not fanless however, but the other stuff is, on the plus side=20 you won't have to worry about CPU power :) Also, the onboard video works well with radeonhd and is quite fast. One other downside is the onboard network isn't great (Realtek) but I=20 put an em card in mine. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1284787.2vsuEm6DAF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBLXiYx5ZPcIHs/zowRAkB2AJ9XVkRqtWestP2Y3LC+ygn4pqqZUACcDzLz DvH9w9HtCsd2NJKnfFB1wHk= =p8ya -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1284787.2vsuEm6DAF--
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