Hi! Am 06.11.2012 11:56, schrieb Chris Wilson: > 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.
I can't confirm this. I've installed a 7.200rpm drive (WD Black) and its only getting warm. The disk itself reports about 39 degree.. This is absolutely ok.. With two disk, the temperature was about 44 degree, which is still fine. >> 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. > Cheers, Conrad. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
