Re: NAS appliance or home server

In article <VA.000014ae.243f13b9@nospam.aaisp.org>,
Daniel James  <wastebasket@nospam.aaisp.org> wrote:

>I /like/ mini-ITX solutions, but if I'm going to have to go for a
>Venus-sized case to fit the drives in I'll be tempted to go for a
>mini-tower and a uATX board with a bit more CPU power ... but that pushes
>the electricity consumption up and I'm trying to be green about this.

Micro tower?

http://linitx.com/viewproduct.php?prodid930

CN 1000 mobo:

http://linitx.com/viewproduct.php?prodid318

(You'll need memory for it too)

Pair of 1TB drives:

http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Hard+Drives/Serial+ATA/Western+Digital+Caviar+10
00GB+-+Green+Power+-+SATA2+-+16MB+%28WD10EACS%29+?productId)771

These are WDC's green drives - They're not the fastest, but run cool and
use less power than just about anything else...

Should be able to get the whole unit down to 35W or less.

Those mobos will run Debian - that's what I base my flash booting
systems on. (Although I compile a custom kernel)

And don't forget - most of these mobos only have 10/100 ethernet ports -
that's ~10M Bytes a sec maximum data transfer... Which is about 20% of
what the drives can do, so unless you're going for a mobo with Gb
Ethernet (and you feel you really need it!) don't be overly concerned
about drive speed. The box will soak up any unused memory as disk cache
anyway.

Good luck!

Gordon
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