Is there any difference (from a freenas perspective) between the 224 and 226 chipset? - All I am seeing is the 6 sata 3 on the 226 and the 4 stata 2 - 2 stata 2 on the 224. For other differences, Not sure what Flexible I/O is or if the intel management stuff makes a difference for freenas.
I have the mobo choices down the the two asrock rack e3 mini itx and the supermicro x10slm(h) uatx boards. Since they all have 6 sata ports on intel controllers, is it worth the extra cash to go with the 226 chipset?
As far as cases, depending on the mobo, it will either be a lian li q25 or a FD node 304 or the FD design mini black :)
Use is home data storage (tunes, pics, docs) / general backup of files, surveillance camera storage, and blu ray rips that will be streamed to xbmc pc. Network is single GB, no link agg.
will probably end up getting 4 3tb drives in either z1 or striped config. 6tb is a good storage number. Maybe will go to 5 drives for z2 but thats still being worked out.
I am running a test freenas on an old pentium with 2 1gb drives in striped config with 1tb of storage and its been great. I get about 90-95m on CIFS shares file transfers. Also running ftp and an NFS share.
thanks in advance for any comments you may have.
I have the mobo choices down the the two asrock rack e3 mini itx and the supermicro x10slm(h) uatx boards. Since they all have 6 sata ports on intel controllers, is it worth the extra cash to go with the 226 chipset?
As far as cases, depending on the mobo, it will either be a lian li q25 or a FD node 304 or the FD design mini black :)
Use is home data storage (tunes, pics, docs) / general backup of files, surveillance camera storage, and blu ray rips that will be streamed to xbmc pc. Network is single GB, no link agg.
will probably end up getting 4 3tb drives in either z1 or striped config. 6tb is a good storage number. Maybe will go to 5 drives for z2 but thats still being worked out.
I am running a test freenas on an old pentium with 2 1gb drives in striped config with 1tb of storage and its been great. I get about 90-95m on CIFS shares file transfers. Also running ftp and an NFS share.
thanks in advance for any comments you may have.