John Stoffel wrote:
Tomasz> Lately I installed Debian on a Thecus n4100 machine. It's a
Tomasz> 600 MHz ARM storage device, and has 4 x 400 GB drives.
Interesting box... how quiet is it?
I can't tell you if it's quiet or not, it's in the server room right
now, and serves as a backup and iSCSI storage for Xen.
But as I still configured it and it was on my desk, it seemed a bit
louder than a normal PC.
After all, it has 4 drives (which you have to buy separately).
I'm thinking of one of these for
home use, but I'll probably go with an EPIA box so I can actually
setup a NFS/CiFS/backup/http/mysql server...
Although it has two gigabit network cards, you can't fully use them -
the IXP3xx ARM CPU (600 MHz) allows you to only send about 25 MB/s of
packets (measured on a loopback interface, so iSCSI LAN speeds are a bit
lower).
I've looked at the Irfant and the Buffalo Logic ones as well... all
tempting. But backups are the killer. :]
There's also Thecus n5200, 800 MHz mobile Celeron, which you can supply
with 5 drives... :)
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Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org
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