From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 25 23:16:16 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28B85106566B; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:16:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F14D8FC16; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:16:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp121-45-156-224.lns6.adl6.internode.on.net [121.45.156.224]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id o0PNG4TQ084912 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:46:05 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:45:57 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <4B5DE3C1.4060508@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1284787.2vsuEm6DAF"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201001260946.01541.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -1.682 () AWL,BAYES_00,RDNS_DYNAMIC X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 203.31.81.10 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:18:25 +0000 Cc: sub.mesa@gmail.com, Pete French , Alexander Motin , Dan Naumov , Artem Belevich , 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 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:16:16 -0000 --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--