Ah, I'm not familiar with those. I ended up buying a fairly old board, but one I knew would work (for everything) with the plan 9 kernels. I got a Supermicro X7SPA-H-D525, and while it isn't amazingly zippy (11 sec to build /sys/src/9/pc) it seems to be fast enough to be a file server.
Jim On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 14:00 Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan <[email protected]> wrote: > Assuming cost is not an issue, wouldn't intel Avoton based board be good > for this? > > Regards > dharani > > > On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Steve Simon <[email protected]> wrote: > > hi, > > mine is the older model which is not passively cooled, a fan is needed > (not to hand so i have no part numbers). > > it has a 40mm cpu fan but that is all. the fan died (got very noisy) and i > replaced it but that was the only unreliable part of the server. > > -steve > > > > On 22 Oct 2016, at 22:06, Steven Stallion <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Stock heatsink with chassis cooling. I've had no issues since I've > > started using them back in 2012: > > http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/stallion/venti/fs.jpg > > > > On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 1:21 PM, James A. Robinson > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> For you folks with an Intel Atom D525 based motherboard > >> in your fileserver, do you run with a fanless? Use heatsink? > >> Use a fan? Use liquid cooling? Use a quantum heat sink? > >> > >> Jim > >> > > >
