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it'd make a great HTPC, but the ram could still find a better home.

iSCSI is basically bus level communication over the network. AFAIK you can't have a win7 initiator with a ZFS target since the initiator needs to 'speak' the filesystem. While you can have multiple initiators per target, it doesn't work with normal filesystems;they'll think the filesystem has...

That build is way overspecced for a nas box, the zacate boards work fine if not well and 4 gigs is ample ram. I think you'll find bsd's samba performance less than satisfactory (freenas, freebsd, ...) even with tuning. Having done a similar thing myself, I settled on solaris. You need so little...

01 ATTRIBUTE_NAME.................RAW_VALUE 02 Raw_Read_Error_Rate....................0 03 Throughput_Performance.................0 04 Spin_Up_Time.......................10139 05 Start_Stop_Count......................11 06 Reallocated_Sector_Ct..................0 07...

Every 10.0s: zpool status|tail -n 14 Tue Apr 12 00:44:34 2011 scan: scrub in progress since Mon Apr 11 20:22:49 2011 4.91T scanned out of 6.21T at 328M/s, 1h9m to go 88K repaired, 78.94% done config: NAME STATE...

I've tinkered with a rather similar setup for the last few weeks, having tried freenas and freebsd 8.2 and settled on solaris. I had performance trouble with samba on freebsd so I didn't even bother on solaris; cifs works really well but permissions are a pain in the ass with it, my advice is...