Recent content by Tman15

I am trying out OpenIndiana with Napp-It. When sending large files to ZFS I average around 60MB/s using Windows 7. When Copying from ZFS to Windows 7 I have been hitting around 85MB/s. Definitely acceptable for what I want to do with it. The system I have is a: GA-8800GA-UD3H board Rev 2.2...

Thanks sub. FreeNAS 0.8 does look good, but I don't trust it right now. I'll give ZFSGuru a go to see how it is. tonyb. Thanks for your thoughts. I did have good success with FreeNAS 0.72. I was able to get the read/writes around 60MB/s. When I switched to a Intel NIC, it went up more. I...

This is the specific thread that I am referring to. http://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/freenas/viewtopic.php?f=104&t=10089 Thoughts?

Thanks sub, the information is very helpful. I have tried FreeNAS 0.8 and NexentaStor. I did like the FreeNAS 0.8, but it is still not stable yet. Plus there have been some comments on the FreeNAS forum that describes the build as being flawed even when it gets to a stable build. I am...

Thanks for the fast response. Yes the boards that I am referring to have typically five or six ports, plus one or two others that use a different chipset. I don't have any plans on enabling RAID on the ports. I will be setting the ports to use IDE Mode through BIOS. I intend on using ZFS and...

Hi all, I plan on using FreeNas 0.7.2 on a system that I will be building. I used FreeNas on an older Gigabyte board with 5 SATA2 ports. It worked with no problem. I want to use a board with 7 or 8 SATA2 ports on it. It does not matter if it is AMD or Intel. Just want to keep the price...