8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

[Daniel O'Connor]

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.

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