[Wlug] Looking for a new system

[Adam Keck]

The small, blingy, cost-is-no-object solution ;-) :

<http://www.cappuccinopc.com/pandora-945.asp>

sitting on top of

2x <http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10727>

mounted via firewire and mirrored with md, and

<http://www.ratocsystems.com/english/products/subpages/firerex1.html>

to handle the tape drive (unless it's internal :-/).

The Core Duo includes speedstep so it should keep the power usage down.

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Realistically though, a few of my friends have had good noise levels
and reliability putting the fanless VIA kit into a larger case with
slow large fans or no fans at all.  In that case, the noisiest and
hottest bits will be the drives.

-Adam

On 9/27/06, John Stoffel <john at stoffel.org> wrote:
>
> Guys,
>
> I've been looking around for a new system at home, basically to act as
> a file server (NFS, Samba) and backup server using Bacula.  It also
> needs to run http and mysql and other daemons as needed.
>
> I'd like to get at least a pair of 250gb drives to mirror them for
> storage, with LVM volumes on top.  And of course room for expansion to
> another pair of drives down the line.
>
> But I'd like it smallish and quiet as well.  Oh yeah, it needs to have
> a PCI slot for a SCSI controller, since my tape drive is SCSI for
> backups.
>
> Desires:
>
>         - small
>         - cheap
>         - quiet
>         - low power
>         - boots without a keyboard/mouse needed at all
>         - onboard video (don't really need it at all)
>         - PCI slots for expansion
>         - four 3.5" drive bays internally
>         - SATA ports on board
>         - AMD or VIA EPIA
>         - 1Gb of RAM or more.
>
> I've looked at the Via EPIA style systems.  Just not sure if they have
> enough oomph for what I want.
>
> The other thought is to just take my old Dell Precision dual cpu Xeon
> 550mhz box and make that my main server, holding all my data, etc.
> It's got the drive bays, and PCI slots and scsi controller all in
> there already.  I could add in some SATA controllers for the new disks
> without a problem.  And it would continue to hold my ISA 8-port serial
> card.  And it's got the memory for what it would be doing pretty much
> as well.
>
> Then I'd just get a new system for my desktop with a much smaller disk
> drive.
>
> Systems I've looked at:
>
>   - bare bones AMD x2 on ebay.
>   - VIA Epia Nanoscale dual CPU box
>         http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS7109201579.html
>   - buying a dell from their closeouts
>
>
> Any comments?
>
> John
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-- 
-Adam