JetWay J7F3E-PB A (462) SiS 741CX Mini ITX AMD Motherboard - Works (caveats)


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For those on the MINI-ITX bandwagon.

I can confirm that the  JetWay J7F3E-PB with AMD Geode Processor works.

 

http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=N82E16813153052

 

However there are some caveats. This board only has 2 SATA Ports.

In my Mini-ITX case I can support an extra PCI card with a riser so I added a PROMISE TX4.

 

Chenbro ES34069 Mini-ITX Home Server/NAS Chassis ($300)

http://www.logicsupply.com/products/es34069

 

Another Caveat is the On Board NIC.

This nic is a 10/100 and is not supported by unRaid yet (Although There has been requests for the SIS900 driver).

 

What I did was purchase the daughter board for Gigabit.

http://www.e-itx.com/jetway-ad3rtlang-3x-gigabit-lan-module.html

They have 2,

1 with 1 port

1 with 3 ports.

I elected the 3 ports so I could use one for routing and monitoring another segment.

 

The daughterboard uses the R8129 Module and seems to be working.

 

Overall the parity sync is at 34,059 KB/sec for 3 500GB Drives.

 

In the meantime this geode is a hell of a performer for what it is.

During parity sync I get

 

top - 04:15:41 up  1:03,  2 users,  load average: 2.04, 2.14, 2.08
Tasks:  51 total,   1 running,  50 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.4%us, 25.2%sy,  0.0%ni, 73.1%id,  0.0%wa,  0.0%hi,  1.3%si,  0.0%st

 

Power usage with 3 drives is at 84 watts during parity sync.

It Drops to 54 watts when the drives are at idle.

 

Next what I'll have to do is mod the case for an external SATA port so I can use the last SATA port externally.

I'm considering this puppy for a concatenated external parity drive.

http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?name=EN-N0006US

 

Right now I have one internal port on a 2.5" hard drive for a slackware development environment.

 

So far this lil guy is the perfect companion for me to offload my shares from my workstation.

 

 

What do people use to benchmark network throughput?

 

 

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