Yes, good idea! dharani
On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 9:21 PM, James A. Robinson <jim.robin...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 < > vdhar...@gmail.com> 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 <st...@quintile.net> 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 <sstall...@gmail.com> 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 >> > <jim.robin...@gmail.com> 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 >> >> >> >> >>
