Home made NAS

[E.S. Rosenberg]

2012/12/5 vordoo <vordoo at yahoo.com>:
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> On 2012-12-05 12:48, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
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> BTW, in an unrelated discussion somewhere else two days ago, several
> professional sysadmins I know recommended OpenIndiana (an open source fork
> of Solaris) and ZFS for home NAS's.
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> Geoff
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> Yep, I like OpenIndiana/ZFS. But, the recommended 64-bit sys & a lot of RAM,
> kind of kills the "give the old HW new life" thing :-) & new HW for that
> setup may be an overkill for home usage.
These days old hw can also be 64b (Athlon64 was released almost sept.
2003 - how time flies).
But if you need 64b I would just go for some Via Nano, AMD E-series or
some of the Intel Atom series cpus, they have x86-64 support and
except for the Atom these CPUs support out-of-order execution which
also can boost performance considerably.
In addition these systems are generally cheap and the electricity
savings will probably cover the difference between recycling your old
hw and buying a new motherboard+ram...

As a side tangent: has anyone here started playing with btrfs yet?
Regards,
Eliyahu - אליהו
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