Saturday, November 28, 2009

FreeNAS 0.7 on Abit BP6 motherboard

Confirming that FreeNAS 0.7 works on the Abit BP6 motherboard.

The server was made mostly from old spare parts:
  • Abit BP6 (no mods, caps haven't been replaced)
  • 1x Celeron 366Mhz (not overclocked)
  • 256MB RAM
  • nVidia GeForce2 MX400 64MB AGP
  • Intel 82559 Pro/100 NIC
  • 6 HDs of various sizes setup in JBOD
  • CF to IDE adapter, +128M CF Card (for FreeNAS)
  • xsonic 350W power supply
Had a few problems as some parts died, including two video cards and two sticks of RAM. Also a 10G HD (from a Xbox 1) caused lockups.

Another Celeron, or overclocking, might help as CPU is the bottleneck when doing a rsync.

USB & FDD controller, parallel & serial ports were all turned off in the BIOS.

CPU Load during a remote rsync: