New Z97 Chipset - Is it supported in Freenas 9.1.x?

[ixion]

I'd like to know:

1- if the new Intel Z97 chipset is supported in Freenas 9.x? If not, are there plans to support it or will this require BSD 10.x?
2- will the Intel onboard graphics of a Haswell Core i3 or i5 (socket 1150) work in Freenas 9.x?

I'm thinking of building a new Freenas box with a Z97 motherboards. Those motherboards just started to ship this week. They all have at least 6 SATA3 ports and some have 8 or 10, all straight from the chipset, seems like a good solution when paired with a low power Haswell Core i3 and no need for discreet graphics (although the graphics are really only for the Install, after that my box will be headless).

Thanks.

 

[cyberjock]

FreeNAS support is linked to BSD support. So you should ask that first question to the BSD people.

As for the second question, FreeNAS is text based only. So I'm not sure what kind of "support" you are expecting from a graphics card.

Z97 won't be recommend though as it has no ECC RAM support.

 

[ixion]

For the installation, even if text base, you still need a graphics card/port and most Haswell have graphics built in, so no need for a graphics card during installation. That's what I meant. So my question is whether the onboard Intel graphics 4xxx series is supported in Freenas 9.x.

 

[cyberjock]

Yes... the video card will support basic text modes so every OS should be 'supported' that uses those modes.

 

[Ericloewe]

As Cyberjock said, basic text mode is universally supported. Do not expect any support for anything fancier than that, though.

And again, Z97 is a terrible choice for FreeNAS because it doesn't support ECC.

 

[D4nthr4x]

Quit buying gaming shit for freenas, z97 isn't server grade and you shouldn't be buying it for freenas if you want any kind of reliability (or if you want to use ECC, WHICH YOU SHOULD USE). Buy a good Supermicro x10 series board and get a g3220, throw some ecc ram in it.

 

[Ericloewe]

Quit buying gaming shit for freenas, z97 isn't server grade and you shouldn't be buying it for freenas if you want any kind of reliability (or if you want to use ECC, WHICH YOU SHOULD USE). Buy a good Supermicro x10 series board and get a g3220, throw some ecc ram in it.

It's not about vague "reliability", Intel's chipsets are all pretty much the same chip with stuff fused off/disabled in microcode. The only reason why Zxx chipsets are not suited for FreeNAS while the Cxxx chipsets are is that the latter support ECC and the former don't.

 

[D4nthr4x]

It's not about vague "reliability", Intel's chipsets are all pretty much the same chip with stuff fused off/disabled in microcode. The only reason why Zxx chipsets are not suited for FreeNAS while the Cxxx chipsets are is that the latter support ECC and the former don't.

Not really. Different components, different add on components such as usb controllers, different tolerances, etc. To say that the only difference on a motherboard is the support for ecc or not is entirely wrong. And in fact ECC support isn't entirely up to the motherboard since the memory controller is on the CPU. Then there is also the inclusion of IPMI and NICs that work better with freebsd. And the "well I've had a computer that I left on 24/7 that's lasted for 5 years" isn't really a valid argument (not that you've made this argument but I've heard it before) since that is likely 80% idle usage where it just has power going to it, not actual usage of the components, when you start stressing components they fail much faster on consumer parts than they do on server parts.

 

[Ericloewe]

Not really. Different components, different add on components such as usb controllers, different tolerances, etc. To say that the only difference on a motherboard is the support for ecc or not is entirely wrong. And in fact ECC support isn't entirely up to the motherboard since the memory controller is on the CPU. Then there is also the inclusion of IPMI and NICs that work better with freebsd. And the "well I've had a computer that I left on 24/7 that's lasted for 5 years" isn't really a valid argument (not that you've made this argument but I've heard it before) since that is likely 80% idle usage where it just has power going to it, not actual usage of the components, when you start stressing components they fail much faster on consumer parts than they do on server parts.

I'm not talking about the motherboard, I'm talking about the PCH. Yes, motherboards are very different, but that's not an absolute truth. Intel's low-end server parts are pretty much identical to consumer stuff, with features removed in various ways.

 

[cyberjock]

It's not about vague "reliability", Intel's chipsets are all pretty much the same chip with stuff fused off/disabled in microcode. The only reason why Zxx chipsets are not suited for FreeNAS while the Cxxx chipsets are is that the latter support ECC and the former don't.

Oh.. you have so much to learn...