Re: Intel D945GSE vs Zotac ION ITX (was: Support for Zotac MB with nVidia ION chipset)

2010-04-06 Thread perryh
Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: One fairly well-known super computer class architecture from the mid 1960s ran without *any* error checking in the CPU *or* main memory. Dr. Seymour Cray analyzed things and concluded the significant extra component count for just doing 'parity'

Re: Intel D945GSE vs Zotac ION ITX (was: Support for Zotac MB with nVidia ION chipset)

2010-04-05 Thread Jeremie Le Hen
Hi Dan, Peter, Thank you for your enlightening replies. On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 10:40:35AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: On 2010-Apr-04 23:54:55 +0200, Jeremie Le Hen jere...@le-hen.org wrote: Yeah, you are right. I should have mentionned that I do not want necessarily a high-performance NAS,

Re: Intel D945GSE vs Zotac ION ITX (was: Support for Zotac MB with nVidia ION chipset)

2010-04-05 Thread Dan Naumov
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Jeremie Le Hen jere...@le-hen.org wrote: Nonetheless I'm a little worried by what you said about the lack of ECC. Computers has been used for years before ECC came out and obviously they worked :).  Do you really think it might happen to be a problem?  Would an

Re: Intel D945GSE vs Zotac ION ITX (was: Support for Zotac MB with nVidia ION chipset)

2010-04-05 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Apr-05 12:20:12 +0200, Jeremie Le Hen jere...@le-hen.org wrote: Nonetheless I'm a little worried by what you said about the lack of ECC. Computers has been used for years before ECC came out and obviously they worked :). Not really. Most early computers had fairly extensive error

Re: Intel D945GSE vs Zotac ION ITX (was: Support for Zotac MB with nVidia ION chipset)

2010-04-05 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Mon Apr 5 16:34:40 2010 Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 07:34:05 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy peterjer...@acm.org To: Jeremie Le Hen jere...@le-hen.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardw...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel D945GSE vs Zotac ION ITX

Re: Intel D945GSE vs Zotac ION ITX (was: Support for Zotac MB with nVidia ION chipset)

2010-04-04 Thread Jeremie Le Hen
Hi, --- Cc: me when replying, as I'm not subscribed. --- I cross-post this reply to freebsd-hardware@ since the result of my little study around Atom-based motherboard may be of interest for readers of this ML too. On Sun, Apr 04, 2010 at 03:00:09PM -0600, Tim Judd wrote: On 4/4/10, Jeremie Le

RE: Intel D945GSE vs Zotac ION ITX (was: Support for Zotac MB with nVidia ION chipset)

2010-04-04 Thread Dan Naumov
Just a small comment regarding Atom suitability for a home NAS: feel free to completely ignore people saying that ZFS overhead is too much for an Atom to handle efficiently, they have no idea what they are talking about. I am using a Supermicro X7SPA-H board (Atom D510) and I an easily achieving

Re: Intel D945GSE vs Zotac ION ITX (was: Support for Zotac MB with nVidia ION chipset)

2010-04-04 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2010-Apr-04 23:54:55 +0200, Jeremie Le Hen jere...@le-hen.org wrote: Yeah, you are right. I should have mentionned that I do not want necessarily a high-performance NAS, it's for home use so my premary concern is the low power consumption. This is why I want an Atom-based motherboard.