Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

I'm a new user to Solaris (read: I've spent a few days on Google and have the Solaris 10 ISO). It seems there's a lot of conflicting information out there about Solaris hardware compatibility. The HCL on Sun's site leaves much to be desired in terms of searchability, so I'm hoping somebody here can tell me if I need to be extremely concerned.

I'm looking to start my first Solaris project as a fileserver. More specifically I'm using it as a ZFS fileserver to host data over SMB. Maybe some NFS in the future. Not the most resource intensive task, but this server is going to get hit a lot, and be streaming a lot of video to many sources, so I don't want to under power myself. I'm assuming that an AMD Athlon X2 with 1GB of RAM should be more than enough, is this correct?

Anyway, here's the boards I'm considering - anyone care to give a bit of feedback? Thanks, and sorry if this was too wordy.

MSI K9N6PGM-F - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813130067
GIGABYTE GA-MA69VM-S2 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813128043
ECS NFORCE4M-A - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813135019

They are all likely to work, especially for a file server but as none of these mainboards are in the HCL, you can't be 100% sure.

Possible issues would be Ethernet and SATA controller support.

The best process would be to have access to PCs using them and run the one of the
Sun Device Detection Tool ( http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/device_detect.html ) or Installation Check Tool ( http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/hcts/install_check.html ).