Hi all, On Wed, 31 Oct 2012, ED Fochler wrote:
> The additional heat from the PSU components feeding the drives would > concern me too. I'd add external power to that DVD drive rather than > feeding it off the Soekris. And I would recommend getting one of the > real SSD msata drives and putting a real OS install on there. Then you > can get the hard drives to spin down because they won't be in use for > regular OS stuff, just big data movement. I would definitely prefer SSD drives in a net6501, especially if you're installing two. The box gets *hot* even with just one spinning disk. > As much as I like the Soekris boxes, it sounds like you really want a > desktop case and MoBo with a laptop CPU and some 3.5" drives. And if you do want to go down that route, these servers are reasonably fast, expandable and absurdly cheap: http://www.ebuyer.com/281915-hp-proliant-turion-ii-n40l-microserver-100-cashback-658553-421 Cheers, Chris. -- Aptivate | http://www.aptivate.org | Phone: +44 1223 967 838 Future Business, Cam City FC, Milton Rd, Cambridge, CB4 1UY, UK Aptivate is a not-for-profit company registered in England and Wales with company number 04980791. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
