The poster said he was going to run FreeNAS. FreeNAS is tuned to work with this. You can "RUN" FreeBSD in 24MB of RAM. It won't run well and neither will FreeNAS on 1GB RAM.
See we are arguing two different points. I think running a RAIDZ1 pool on 1GB of RAM is going to be so slow as to be...
FreeNAS 9.2 won't support the i210 NIC. I'm not sure about the Marvell SATA ports, but I'm not optimistic about it.
If the NICs won't work and about half the SATA ports won't work, why use this board? Don't get me wrong, I'm really excited to see this board and I would love to run one through...
Sorry.
Oops. I did it again!
Looks like a whole bunch o' discussion regarding chips and boards that have yet to see any real world testing/reviews.
I've seen a few benchmarks, but nothing coming close to the detail level I would like. Those marks will come and we will see. I think Intel...
Mine caught fire within 10 minutes of power up. The thing actually still POSTs and tries to boot. The VIA firewire controller chip is MELTED. Timeline so far with ASUS boards.
1/14/2011 Purchased at Fry's.
1/29/2011 Determine board is faulty. (random failures, lock ups and crashes)
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I wasn't gonna post anything. Just keep my flipping mouth shut, but this post really chapped my butt.
I called Asus in February regarding this issue and others I was having. Got a case number and everything. They told me I was all set. Come to find out in March, that I needed to register to...