Bernard Mentink
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I ask this question because there is more and more push for ARM servers, in particular powerful 64bit ARM servers ..
The reason for this is of course the much better power/performance factor than x86 (at least at the moment).
Power bills for 24/7 server farms are horrendous .. millions of dollars can be saved every year (and the planet) by this sort of migration ..
FreeBSD already has a port for ARM64 and in particular on some reference server hardware.
https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.html#FreeBSD/arm64
https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.html#FreeBSD-on-Cavium-ThunderX-(arm64)
It seems to make sense that FreeNAS adopt this for the new hardware that is coming out ..
Does FreeNAS have a plan to address this in the future ... (being of course the best server OS out there ..):p;);)
The reason for this is of course the much better power/performance factor than x86 (at least at the moment).
Power bills for 24/7 server farms are horrendous .. millions of dollars can be saved every year (and the planet) by this sort of migration ..
FreeBSD already has a port for ARM64 and in particular on some reference server hardware.
https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.html#FreeBSD/arm64
https://www.freebsd.org/news/status/report-2015-07-2015-09.html#FreeBSD-on-Cavium-ThunderX-(arm64)
It seems to make sense that FreeNAS adopt this for the new hardware that is coming out ..
Does FreeNAS have a plan to address this in the future ... (being of course the best server OS out there ..):p;);)
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