Personal computing discussed
Moderators: renee, mac_h8r1, Nemesis
chuckula wrote:Well... how much performance do you want out of this server? I have an Atom box where the only moving parts are the fan in the power supply and the motors in the hard drives (RAID 5 storage server). If I ripped out the mechanical drives and used an SSD and used a fanless power supply then I'd have a system that meets your requirements...but it might cost more than you'd like, mostly due to SSD and fanless power supply.
I also have a Raspberry Pi that is nowhere near as fast as the Atom box (the Atom is ~4x faster at single threaded tasks and the Atom has 2 cores). Of course, the Raspberry Pi has exactly zero moving parts, runs Linux, and is $35 + S&H, so there you go. Some more information would be helpful in guiding you in the right direction.
bthylafh wrote:The Pi apparently has troublesome USB, which thanks to its design leads to troublesome Ethernet. I wouldn't use this generation of RP for this purpose.
Madman wrote:bthylafh wrote:What surprises me is that there are a lot of mITX cases, but all of them are prepackaged with PSUs which have small screamer fans... Whose idea was that?
Madman wrote:I would like to set up a small Linux server at home, which would be working 24/7.
But I need it to be completely silent, unaudible at 2 ft., or at night. Prefferably without moving parts, so that it doesn't choke on the dust after a year or so, and which is very cheap to build. Also it has to be safe enough so that it could be left unattended at home, and it wouldn't short or anything.
Has anyone done something similar? What kind of hardware I should be looking at? Price range?
Madman wrote:So basically I could use something like this - http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Dual-Core-M ... ef=sr_1_16 + fanless PSU, and it would work?
Madman wrote:I would like to set up a small Linux server at home, which would be working 24/7.
But I need it to be completely silent, unaudible at 2 ft., or at night. Prefferably without moving parts, so that it doesn't choke on the dust after a year or so, and which is very cheap to build. Also it has to be safe enough so that it could be left unattended at home, and it wouldn't short or anything.
Has anyone done something similar? What kind of hardware I should be looking at? Price range?