On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 08:05 -0700, Neil wrote: ... snip > I just hate throwing things away, and have about 5 PATA 2.5" drives, > two of which are quite new 120GB units. But I'm willing to pick up > whatever works well. Reliability is key, which is why the SSD is > tempting. FWIW, I know there are SATA to PATA adapters, but really > don't know if to trust those. > > Cheers, > -Neil. ... snip
I would consider using the drives you have and set up RAID. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID In my opinion, for motherboards, try to use what you can get cheap or free. I like older complete PC's such as a full or small form Dell's or similar. http://www.geeks.com/products.asp?cat=SYS or eBay To me, trying to get a tiny PC (or notebook, laptop, etcetera) to work with an EMC2 machine just adds more needless work, unless you happen to carry your CNC around in your pocket. Any motherboard I would consider would need at least three PCI slots of some variety, so that cheap add-on parallel port cards could be used (despite rumors, parallel ports are not going away anytime soon). http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emcinfo.pl?EMC2_Supported_Hardware (see parallel port card section) I avoid using the motherboard parallel port, so when I blow up the port, I don't have to replace the whole motherboard or PC. As long as a PC is fast enough, it is good enough. Faster, fancier or smaller PC's will not add anything unless the application changes. If that happens, the original PC should be cheap enough to not mind giving it to someone else. Another pet peeve, the EMC2 PC should stay with the machine it is intended to run. If you need a PC for another application, get another PC. That's just the way I see it. -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html California, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
