The Intel D945GCLF will be my new Homeserver. Currently I am using a QNAP TS-209 but it is not optimal for my requirements. As I am using often big files (videos from my HD Camera) and I have lots of photos, the QNAP is a littlebit too slow. I've installed FreeNAS 0.7 AMD64 (revision 3514) on that Motherboard.
CPU: Intel Atom processor 230 @ 1.6GHz (standard)
Mem: 2 GB RAM (Kingston KVR667DSN5/2G)
Harddisk: 1x SAMSUNG HD103UJ (configured as a ZPOOL)
Network: Intel Pro/1000 GT
The HELIOS LAN Test showed me up to 45-55 MByte/s Read and Write...
The HELIOS LAN Test showed me up to 45-55 MByte/s Read and Write...
9 comments:
Hi,
bin ja mal auf den im September erscheindenen Atom 330 samt Board (GiaEthernet) gespannt - dürfte eine tolle FreeNAS - Plattform ergeben.
Gruss
Falk
Hi Falk,
I'm also looking forward to the new Board and CPU. The GigE-Nic is a wonderfull improvement.
Regards,
harryd
Hello,
I have also bought this motherboard for a NAS, but the FreeNAS version i have installed doesn't detect the onboard network card, do you know if it is detected in your version ?
thanks
Hi neosilver,
unfortunately the onboard NIC doesn't work with FreeBSD. (Try Google :-) )
I've installed a Intel Pro/1000 GT.
Regards,
harryd
Hi,
did you also try this board with a softraid5 setup? I'm quite interested if the atom can perform the raid5 calculations and at the same time deliver enough network speed (50+ MB/s).
regards
derx
Hi derx,
as there are only two SATA-Ports onboard and I've used the PCI-Slot for a GigE-NIC, it was not possible to test RAID5.
AND the onboard NIC (100MBit/s) doesn't work with the current versions of FreeNAS (FreeBSD).
Regards,
harryd
Hi,
That's too bad. I'm looking for an exremely low power (eg. Intel Atom or the new athlon 2000+) freenas setup, which can deliver 50+MB/s on a 4x1TB RAID5 setup. So the mobo has to have 4x SATA, onboard graphics. Nic doesn't matter becasue I'm going to use an intel 1000T Pro pci-e. Booting will be done from cdrom/usb/cfcard.
I'm just worried that the lowpower cpu's/mobo's can't deliver the performance needed to calculate the raid5 parity at 50+ MB/s, while at the same time the northbridge gets to do the disktransfer/network transfer/memory transfer.
I just wish I had the money to get both systems (eg. 1 atom mobo with atleast 4sata ports and an pci-e port, and an athlon 2000+ + mobo) to test this... Actually I'm quite surprised that nobody else has tested this already :)
regards,
derx
Here's my video, proof Freenas 0.7 (stable) works with the Atom Processor on the D945GCLF Intel Motherboard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SROA6Yn6i-4
Hi pulp,
thanks for sharing :-)
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