Hey,
A bit out of topic but I am looking for a micro server/pc if anyone knows a descent one... I found many nice NAS but I would like to have full access to the OS (install CentOS, etc).
Dream one would be
- Very quiet (fanless) since it will sit in my bedroom. - Headless - Small. - 2/3 HDs (2.5" are ok) for RAID1 (hardware RAID would be nice, and with BBC even more).- 1 or 2 GB NICs - USB3 or ESATA would be nice... - Price would not be much of a problem (maybe no more than $1000 though).
Random thoughts: - a shuttle PC with 2 HDs and a real RAID card (if it fits inside), but maybe too noisy, no headless. - a mac mini server looks very nice (but max budget, need another Mac to install, not sure if easy/possible to install CentOS). - some NAS were I could easily replace the OS (not on a flash chip).
So if you know a nice one...
Thx, JD
On 08/09/2011 10:57 AM, John Doe wrote:
Hey,
A bit out of topic but I am looking for a micro server/pc if anyone knows a descent one... I found many nice NAS but I would like to have full access to the OS (install CentOS, etc).
Dream one would be
- Very quiet (fanless) since it will sit in my bedroom.
- Headless
- Small.
- 2/3 HDs (2.5" are ok) for RAID1 (hardware RAID would be nice, and with BBC even more).- 1 or 2 GB NICs
- USB3 or ESATA would be nice...
- Price would not be much of a problem (maybe no more than $1000 though).
Random thoughts:
- a shuttle PC with 2 HDs and a real RAID card (if it fits inside), but maybe too noisy, no headless.
- a mac mini server looks very nice (but max budget, need another Mac to install, not sure if easy/possible to install CentOS).
- some NAS were I could easily replace the OS (not on a flash chip).
So if you know a nice one...
Thx, JD
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/15351-15351-4237916-4237918-42...
From: Digimer linux@alteeve.com
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/15351-15351-4237916-4237918-42...
It looks quite nice, although a tiny bit too big for me (no real need the room for 4 HDs + 1 HD or DVD). Saw that one guy was able to install a Smart Array P410 with 512MB BBC too (too bad the drives are not hot-plug). And there is a remote management optional card (if it fits along the P410) which is great since I have no monitor at home. Just wondering how noisy 23dbs are... I tend to be very sensitive to noise, especially at night.
From: Emmett Culley emmett@webengineer.com
Check out the Supermicro X7SPA and X7SPE motherboards. http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA-H-D525.cfm I am running CentOS 5.6 and CentOS 6 x86_64 on them.
The fake raid says "RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 support (Windows Only)"... did you install a RAID card? Did you find a nice low profile/noise case for it?
Thx, JD
Am Thu, 11 Aug 2011 03:38:10 -0700 (PDT) schrieb John Doe jdmls@yahoo.com:
From: Digimer linux@alteeve.com
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/15351-15351-4237916-4237918-42...
It looks quite nice, although a tiny bit too big for me (no real need the room for 4 HDs + 1 HD or DVD). Saw that one guy was able to install a Smart Array P410 with 512MB BBC too (too bad the drives are not hot-plug). And there is a remote management optional card (if it fits along the P410) which is great since I have no monitor at home. Just wondering how noisy 23dbs are... I tend to be very sensitive to noise, especially at night.
If you sleep next to it and it is too noisy, chance are you don't need it and can switch it off at night ;-) I assume, with SSDs instead of HDs, it will be even more silent.
My ALIX is only noiseless and fanless because it uses a CF as storage. With a full HD, I doubt I could run it fanless (and at 5W)...
On 08/11/2011 03:38 AM, John Doe wrote:
From: Digimerlinux@alteeve.com
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF06a/15351-15351-4237916-4237918-42...
It looks quite nice, although a tiny bit too big for me (no real need the room for 4 HDs + 1 HD or DVD). Saw that one guy was able to install a Smart Array P410 with 512MB BBC too (too bad the drives are not hot-plug). And there is a remote management optional card (if it fits along the P410) which is great since I have no monitor at home. Just wondering how noisy 23dbs are... I tend to be very sensitive to noise, especially at night.
From: Emmett Culleyemmett@webengineer.com
Check out the Supermicro X7SPA and X7SPE motherboards. http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA-H-D525.cfm I am running CentOS 5.6 and CentOS 6 x86_64 on them.
The fake raid says "RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 support (Windows Only)"... did you install a RAID card? Did you find a nice low profile/noise case for it?
Thx, JD
I use Linux software raid, and never hardware raid :-)
I use this case for most of our deployments:
http://www.casetronic.com/product_d.php?id=0000000078
Though I am testing with this one now, as it supports two hard drives and has room inside for an and-in card.
http://www.casetronic.com/product_d.php?id=0000000071
Emmett
Il 09/08/2011 16.57, John Doe ha scritto:
Hey,
A bit out of topic but I am looking for a micro server/pc if anyone knows a descent one... I found many nice NAS but I would like to have full access to the OS (install CentOS, etc).
Dream one would be
- Very quiet (fanless) since it will sit in my bedroom.
- Headless
- Small.
- 2/3 HDs (2.5" are ok) for RAID1 (hardware RAID would be nice, and with BBC even more).- 1 or 2 GB NICs
- USB3 or ESATA would be nice...
- Price would not be much of a problem (maybe no more than $1000 though).
Random thoughts:
- a shuttle PC with 2 HDs and a real RAID card (if it fits inside), but maybe too noisy, no headless.
- a mac mini server looks very nice (but max budget, need another Mac to install, not sure if easy/possible to install CentOS).
- some NAS were I could easily replace the OS (not on a flash chip).
So if you know a nice one...
Thx, JD
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
HP Microserver is very good for me, i have one and it's ok.
Amedeo
On 08/09/2011 07:57 AM, John Doe wrote:
Hey,
A bit out of topic but I am looking for a micro server/pc if anyone knows a descent one... I found many nice NAS but I would like to have full access to the OS (install CentOS, etc).
Dream one would be
- Very quiet (fanless) since it will sit in my bedroom.
- Headless
- Small.
- 2/3 HDs (2.5" are ok) for RAID1 (hardware RAID would be nice, and with BBC even more).- 1 or 2 GB NICs
- USB3 or ESATA would be nice...
- Price would not be much of a problem (maybe no more than $1000 though).
Random thoughts:
- a shuttle PC with 2 HDs and a real RAID card (if it fits inside), but maybe too noisy, no headless.
- a mac mini server looks very nice (but max budget, need another Mac to install, not sure if easy/possible to install CentOS).
- some NAS were I could easily replace the OS (not on a flash chip).
So if you know a nice one...
Thx, JD
Check out the Supermicro X7SPA and X7SPE motherboards.
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA-H-D525.cfm
I am running CentOS 5.6 and CentOS 6 x86_64 on them.
Emmett
On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 08:58 -0700, Emmett Culley wrote:
Check out the Supermicro X7SPA and X7SPE motherboards.
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA-H-D525.cfm
I am running CentOS 5.6 and CentOS 6 x86_64 on them.
Is there sufficient 'guts' on the Intel Atom to do useful work ?
What type of tasks are you running ?
On 08/09/2011 09:01 AM, Always Learning wrote:
On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 08:58 -0700, Emmett Culley wrote:
Check out the Supermicro X7SPA and X7SPE motherboards.
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA-H-D525.cfm
I am running CentOS 5.6 and CentOS 6 x86_64 on them.
Is there sufficient 'guts' on the Intel Atom to do useful work ?
What type of tasks are you running ?
We use it as a captive portal, caching proxy, content filer, content server, and for remote system monitoring/management. So far it seems to have "guts" similar to the dual core AMD gateways we use in stationary locations managing up to 200 simultaneous connections.
I haven't tested it in a 200 connection situation, but I expect it could handle the traffic. For now it will be used to manage less than 50 simultaneous connections, in a limited bandwidth (cellular 3G and 4G) connection to the Internet application.
Emmett
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