Hardware suggestions (ICH9R/G33/JMicron JMB363)

Hi list
I sent a similar mail to freebsd-hardware last week, not very much response there though so i resent here with some more details..

Im about to build a new machine wich will mainly be used for offsite backup. My plan is to run 7.0 and use ZFS on a number of regular SATA- discs (some mixed I've already got and more to be bought later).
Anyways, the suggested hardware list is the following right now:

Gigabyte GA-G33-DS3R, G33, 8x internal SATA (6x ICH9R + 2x on jmicron JMB363 from what I can find on net, gigabyte themselfs call it "Gigabyte SATA2")
Intel Pro/1000PT PCIe Desktop Adapter 1000BaseT
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 2.67GHz 1333Mhz Socket LGA775, 4MB
2x1GB 1066MHz memory (another 2 1gb woudl give me max 4gb, but that should realy be enough for a fileserver.. so no 2Gb sticks here, cannot find any for pc8500 anyway)

The mobo was featured on one of the mailinglists (dunno which it was) a while back, it was said that it worked good. However there seems to be some known problems? ICH9R and SATA ATAPI devices seems to work poorly. Is this only ATAPI or is there any risk that this would affect regular disks too? I realy dont want to have disk troubles again, my history with ie nforce mobos and onboard controllers suck.. If these problems absolutly only affects CD-drives (ATAPI) then I realy dont care, but would be nice to know if there are any risk that this affects disks too. (reference http://groups.google.com/group/ muc.lists.freebsd.current/browse_thread/thread/7ae0e00567961d26)

The Intel network controllers should work good too right? From list history it sure looks that way..

For the ZFS part (maybee wrong list), I was thinking of going with zmirrored vdevs (currently I got 6 disks, 3 pairs of different size/ model) in one big pool, and when adding capacity I will probably add pairs of drives (new zmirrored vdevs in the zpool)

Well, thanks for any opinions or suggestions! If you got any recommendations about other similar mobos then I'm all ears!

--
Johan Ström
Stromnet
johan@xxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.stromnet.se/


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