Hi, Thanks for sharing your experiences and concerns.
--- On Wed, 10/31/12, ED Fochler <[email protected]> wrote: > I've had no luck with VM, but I > didn't try very hard. I'd recommend against it. After other suggestions on this list for Linux Containers i've played with that last weekend and it seems to do the trick for me, so i guess full virtualisation is gone from my wish-list :-) Since containers don't add any significant overhead, i guess that's no problem. --- On Tue, 11/6/12, Chris Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. Would 2 drives + SSD fit in the soekris box ? I thought there was just place for 2 drives. I just checked prices for 256 GB SSD's and they've gone down significantly, so maybe even 2 of those would be an option. Also, just to literally think out of the box: Would a similar setup in a larger casing be better ? I haven't really found one that can hold a soekris, but the idea might be worth a try. > > 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 > Thanks for the suggestion, but this seems exactly like what i want to avoid :-) What i'm searching for is a low power consupmtion box that can handle 2 drives for redundancy and an optical drive for backups and is fanless. For most tasks i don't need a lot of processing power so it shouldn't be that hard ... i thought :-) However, most mini-itx boxes already struggle with such a setup because most are designed for a single hardrive and the components usually aren't chosen to be linux-frendly. That's where the net6501 and a dual 2.5" hardrive mount kit came in :-) Best regards, Wesley _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
