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 700/800 south bridge seems to work well with FreeBSD (in my experience). These boards (eg Gigabyte GA-MA785GM-US2H) have 6 SATA ports (one may be eSATA though) and PATA, they seem ideal really.. You can use PATA with 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 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 put an em card in mine. -- 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
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