[mythtv-users] SheevaPlug for a master Backend?

[James D. Goddard]

Zotac has announced a version of their IONITX motherboards that DOES have a PCI-E slot, but as far as I can tell it isn’t actually for sale yet:

<http://www.megatechnews.com/megatech-previews-zotacs-new-ion-itx-f-series-and-the-mag-itx-system/>

I am also interested in their “MAG ITX” system.

Jim

On 10/27/09 2:54 PM, "Gene Stapp" <genestapp at gmail.com> wrote:

On Monday 26 October 2009 13:52:10 Matthew Harrison wrote:

>> What about an OpenRD base?
>>
>> http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/p-20-openrd-base.aspx
>>
>> It's the same chip as the SheevaPlug, but includes 2 native SATA lanes
>> (no USB bandwidth limits) and a PCIe socket.
>
>Certainly seems to have potential, a SATA drive or two, and a PCIe X1 tuner,
>and you might have something.
 >
>Thanks for the info.

The OpenRD is intriguing to me as a NAS. If it's like the sheevaplug it would only pull about 10 watts of power or so. The pci-e 1x slot would allow for a nice SIL sata card for port multiplication. Also it appears some versions of the marvel chip's sata/esata ports also support port multipliers. That would allow a total of 4 port mlutipliers and about 20 sata 2 drives to be connected. I wonder how it would handle opensolaris/nexenta and zfs. I know zfs is hardware intensive and the lack of a good floating point processor could be an issue, but I can't find any documentation on it. Anyone know?

I'd rather go with an ion 330, but they don't have any pci-e slots available and pci is pretty limited in speeds. This seems like it could be a valid alternative possibly


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