On Tue, Nov 06, 2012 at 07:39:52PM +0100, Conrad Kostecki wrote: > Am 06.11.2012 11:56, schrieb Chris Wilson: <snip> > > 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.
I can confirm both! I purchased two net6501 boxes several months apart. The heatsink size changed, I believe because Intel published revised dimensions. I figure Soekris doesn't want to comment on it because people can be irrational about such things. Yes, my first net6501 gets much hotter than my second. Or rather, the heatsink gets much hotter. But I've never had any problem with it. FWIW, the first was a net6501-50 in a standard case, and the second a net6501-70 in a rackmount case. > >> 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 > > Soekris are a tad expensive. I just put together 2 x 1U E3-1230v2 Ivy Bridge boxes, with SLC SSD and 8GB memory. At peak load they still draw only 80W, remarkably. And each cost about the same as my net6501 rackmount. But you don't buy the Soekris because it's cheap, you buy it because of the form factor, and because you expect it to be the last thing to die in the cage. _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
