BUILD C224 / C226 chipset?

[jimmyt]

Is there any difference (from a freenas perspective) between the 224 and 226 chipset? - All I am seeing is the 6 sata 3 on the 226 and the 4 stata 2 - 2 stata 2 on the 224. For other differences, Not sure what Flexible I/O is or if the intel management stuff makes a difference for freenas.

I have the mobo choices down the the two asrock rack e3 mini itx and the supermicro x10slm(h) uatx boards. Since they all have 6 sata ports on intel controllers, is it worth the extra cash to go with the 226 chipset?

As far as cases, depending on the mobo, it will either be a lian li q25 or a FD node 304 or the FD design mini black :)

Use is home data storage (tunes, pics, docs) / general backup of files, surveillance camera storage, and blu ray rips that will be streamed to xbmc pc. Network is single GB, no link agg.

will probably end up getting 4 3tb drives in either z1 or striped config. 6tb is a good storage number. Maybe will go to 5 drives for z2 but thats still being worked out.

I am running a test freenas on an old pentium with 2 1gb drives in striped config with 1tb of storage and its been great. I get about 90-95m on CIFS shares file transfers. Also running ftp and an NFS share.

thanks in advance for any comments you may have.

 

[Ericloewe]

For HDDs, SATA 6Gb/s instead of 3Gb/s makes no measurable difference. For SSDs, if you're not running six of them at full load (the PCH has limited upstream connectivity), the extra device bandwidth may be interesting.

 

[jimmyt]

thanks.. thats what I figured.. no ssd's in this build :)