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<font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt">Zotac has announced a version of their IONITX motherboards that DOES have a PCI-E slot, but as far as I can tell it isn’t actually for sale yet:<br>
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<<a href="http://">http://</a>www.megatechnews.com/megatech-previews-zotacs-new-ion-itx-f-series-and-the-mag-itx-system/><br>
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I am also interested in their “MAG ITX” system.<br>
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Jim<br>
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On 10/27/09 2:54 PM, "Gene Stapp" <<a href="genestapp@gmail.com">genestapp@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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</span></font><blockquote><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial">On Monday 26 October 2009 13:52:10 Matthew Harrison wrote: <br>
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<font color="#660066">>> What about an OpenRD base? <br>
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>> <a href="http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/p-20-openrd-base.aspx">http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/p-20-openrd-base.aspx</a> <br>
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>> It's the same chip as the SheevaPlug, but includes 2 native SATA lanes <br>
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>Certainly seems to have potential, a SATA drive or two, and a PCIe X1 tuner, <br>
>and you might have something. <br>
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>Thanks for the info.<br>
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The OpenRD is intriguing to me as a NAS. If it's like the sheevaplug it would only pull about 10 watts of power or so. The pci-e 1x slot would allow for a nice SIL sata card for port multiplication. Also it appears some versions of the marvel chip's sata/esata ports also support port multipliers. That would allow a total of 4 port mlutipliers and about 20 sata 2 drives to be connected. I wonder how it would handle opensolaris/nexenta and zfs. I know zfs is hardware intensive and the lack of a good floating point processor could be an issue, but I can't find any documentation on it. Anyone know?<br>
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I'd rather go with an ion 330, but they don't have any pci-e slots available and pci is pretty limited in speeds. This seems like it could be a valid alternative possibly<br>
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