CPU Cooler & Total Cost. CPU Cooler: Scythe Samuraii ZZ With approximately 110 mm of clearance between the processor and the power supply above it inside the Lian Li PC-Q08, the Samurai ZZ is a lock as the CPU heatsink.
Of the coolers we've tested that can physically fit in our chosen setup, the Samurai ZZ is the best performing and has a high quality stock fan. The ZZ also offers cross compatibility with AMD and LGA775 motherboards if that's your preference. Testing ZFS RAID-Z performance with 4K sector drives - Page 3. Did some preliminary testing on killagorilla187's system.
He has 6 Samsung F4EG 5400rpm 2TB drives and i think 8GB RAM? Since i see more than 6GB. I found out the disks don't like NCQ alot when writing; possibly a side effect of the 512-byte sector emulation. So i tweaked loader.conf to use more kernel memory, but more importantly, i set the vdev pending requests min/max both to 1; meaning you won't use NCQ at all. Data Storage Systems.
Networking.