David,
That would be nice, and reasonably cheap. I hope it works. The only
issue I have with it is the lack of 3.5 spots, only having 3 such slots
really limits the ability to grow the space over time.
"You must have just missed the "What SATA controllers are people using
for ZFS?" thread."
No. I just didnt see anything that fit my needs on the list, tons of PCI-X
cards (I'm not buying an overpriced server mobo) and some "possibly" working
controllers on the motherboards.
"ACHI SATA ... probably look at Intel boards instead."
Whats ACHI ? I didnt see anything useful on google or wikipedia ... is it a
chipset ? The issue I take with intel is there chips are either grossly
power hungry/hot (anything pre-pentium M) or ungodly expensive (core, core
2). They dont have anything that competes with a 65W AM2 athlon64.
"... A8N32-SLI"
That might work. I dont see a real huge win for using an opteron since this
box wont be doing much at all besides fileserving/streaming media. (Heck I
wish I could do it on the crappy old 32-bit hardware I have laying around,
but alas ... no worky). 4 SATA ports on board would allow me to do a
mirrored root. Add in a mythical pci-e card with at least 4 ports and I have
what I need.
Does anybody know of a guaranteed working pci-e 2 port card ? Must be pci-e.
On 1/18/07, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 1/18/07, . <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Looking around there still is not a good "these cards/motherboards" work
list. the HCL is hardly ever updated, and its far more geared towards
business use than hobbyist/home use.
Yes, this is true. This list is the best resource I have found so far,
and I have been half heartedly looking for the last three months or
so. So to help you and and see if I can get some answers myself, I
will post the system I am currently looking at. I have picked these
parts up from mentions on the list:
ASUS M2NPV-VM (
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16813131014 )
AMD Sempron 64 2800+ (
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16819104245 )
SYBA SD-SATA-4P PCI SATA Controller Card (
http://www.newegg.com/product/Product.asp?item=N82E16815124020 )
The sata card is only a SATA 1 card, but do I care? Do the ports on
the motherboard work? (I think I saw somewhere they do in PATA
compatibility mode.)
As you can see I am going for bottom of the line, but it is just a box
to play around with, and a gigE nas box if things work out well.
So list, what do you think?
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