Those are a bit under powered. Laptop IDE is very common in thin clients. I use a Wyse Rx0L thin client as my network file server. It is a bit more powerful and has 2xSATA onboard and 1 x laptop IDE. On my file server I use all three ports (plus one USB drive). It has performed faultlessly for years, running 24/7.
The Wyse R00L is another possibility. It is slightly lower powered and doesn't have the SATA. You can get laptop IDE to SATA adapters quite cheaply. The HP t5720 is another good option. It has a parallel port and one PCI slot though you need a riser card to use it. Storage is laptop IDE. As you have probably already guessed I quite like thin clients. They are well made and many are fanless which is great for reliability in dusty environments. They are also very low power and extremely quiet. I even used one as a desktop for a while but they are a bit under powered in that application. Les On 02/02/2017 06:43, Gregg Eshelman wrote: > Just got three Wyse S30 thin client terminals with Windows Embedded CE 6 Pro > on them. They have four USB ports, one RS232 DE9, one Ethernet, one VGA, > speaker and microphone jacks. Geode GX 366 MHz CPU. > > For RAM they have a 128 meg PC2700 SODIMM and use some sort of removable > Flash ROM, 128 meg for the Windows CE 6 version. There was a Windows XP > Embedded upgrade kit with a 512 meg SODIMM and 512 meg Flash ROM, but no > longer available new for converting an S30 to an S90. > Preliminary reading on installing Linux in place of Windows CE indicates it's > possible to install up to a 1 gig SODIMM. WinCE on them has a slider to > adjust the RAM split between storage and memory. Of course I had some larger > than 128 meg DDR1 SODIMMs until a few days ago when I gave away a large pile > of old computer stuff. > > Finding the larger Flash ROM boards could be a challenge. They plug onto the > mainboard with a 40 pin header like a 2.5" IDE hard drive, but do they use > the IDE interface and protocol? A quick look on eBay shows many S90's - in > Germany. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
