[geeks] Nifty NAS board (Atom-based FlexATX from Supermicro)

[Mark Benson]

On 20 May 2009, at 20:45, William Enestvedt wrote:

For  what it is, and what it costs, that board is quite nice, although  
a 330 CPU would be even nicer, and a more up to date chipset is  
absolutely chronically required on those boards. Surely a later, lower  
power 9xx series chipset that supports 4GB sticks of RAM and PCIe  
isn't  too much to ask, right? I'd pay more for the board just to get  
that, I mean NVIDIA's Ion platform is perfect but I'm, not sure I need  
a GeForce 9400m onboard,

> But doesn't ZFS eat RAM (in the ARC Cache) for lunch? Would a little
> system with only [I know, I know] 2GB bear up well enough?


I agree there, I think 4GB significantly enhances ZFS performance. If  
you want to build a really nice Atom-based ZFS box you'd be better off  
looking at one with an NVIDIA Ion chipset and using it's more advanced  
and power efficient chipset.

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