Starwind on an Atom D510

[eunosrsh]

I've noticed recently that several SMB NAS devices (e.g. the QNAP 459 Prod) are using Intel Atom D510s and standard ICH9R RAID chipsets.

So I have been thinking about building my own system based on these exact specifications (for much less $$) using the X7SPA-H motherboard.

I want it to be a general purpose nas box, be able to seed torrents, sabnzbd as well as a few other things and of course be useful as an iSCSI target capable of supporting SPC-3 persistent reservations (for Hyper-V clustering). It's obviously the latter of these requirements that Starwind excels at..

I'm intending on installing Windows7 (or at a push Windows 2008) as the OS (i believe it runs pretty well on Atom based netbooks), my question is: has any body used Starwind on such a low end chip (Atom D510) - the QNAP boys have an 8xDisk NAS box so I know the board is capable of driving the I/O - i'm unsure on how well Starwind will run (esp. on top of windows).

Anyone have any insights here? all comments welcome!

Thanks in advance.

[Constantin (staff)]

based on my experience can say that Atom will "die" under load.