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.
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