plenty of us are obsessed with hardware, mobo and chipset options... but we don't all troll these forums every day or subscribe to the list.
Your questions have been asked before in slightly different contexts... I would suggest you get real good with the search function, and look for the HW threads from about a year ago. I used them in my buying decisions and they addressed your ECC/chipset/NIC combos. Here are some relevant wiki pages: AMD mobo chipsets beauty pagent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_AMD_Chipsets Intel mobo chipsets beauty pagent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_chipsets#Core_2_Chipsets (scroll down for Nehalem / Core i7) basically, if you prize ECC RAM above all, go AMD. If you prize the recent Intel Nehalem optimzations, go Intel. If you want a massive SATA & ZFS array, there are alot of old threads for you search and read, because there were many caveats last year. re: Intel path - you can do the crazy limbo dance trying to get all the right combo of components, or you can just give in to Sun and buy the Ultra 24 - the Intel X38 chipset gives you a max 8GB ECC RAM, if the core2 quad is enough cpu for you. Professionally that's what I did, just bought a bunch of Ultra 24s for work. (I don't know the chipset/specs of the Ultra 27, other than it is Xeon based and 12GB max DDR3 RAM -is that ECC???). At home, I'm spending my own cash (read: $$$ are limited), so I went AMD. I got 8GB ECC RAM, a Marvell NIC, 6 onboard SATA drives with Nvidia nForce chipset (nv_sata driver) on a now EOL'd Asus board called a M2N-e. So the right combos are out there, you know how to search. I actually think HW is fun. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
