<font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="black" face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">On Monday 26 October 2009 13:52:10 Matthew Harrison wrote: <br> <br><font color="#660066">>> What about an OpenRD base? <br>
>> <br>>> <a href="http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/p-20-openrd-base.aspx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/p-20-openrd-base.aspx</a> <br>>> <br>>> It's the same chip as the SheevaPlug, but includes 2 native SATA lanes <br>
>> (no USB bandwidth limits) and a PCIe socket. <br></font> ><br>>Certainly seems to have potential, a SATA drive or two, and a PCIe X1 tuner, <br>>and you might have something. <br> ><br>>Thanks for the info.<br>
<br>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>
<br>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></font></font>