On Tue Nov 6, 2012, Chris Wilson wrote: > 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.
All I can suggest is don't put the soekris in a pile of equipment. The entire case seems to act as a heatsink. Not a proper heatsink of course, but it stays a bit warm. Putting anything on top, or putting it on top of something else that gets warm (or both) is asking for trouble I think. I've basically set out all of my core network devices on a smallish table, spread out so nothing heats the others up. > > 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-cas > hback-658553-421 > > Cheers, Chris. -- Thomas Fjellstrom [email protected] _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
