On 11 Sep 2007, at 12:32, Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Tue, 11 Sep 2007, Juan Sandro wrote: > >> >> Hi >> >> We have a number offices accommodating 4-6 people each hence it is >> very >> important for PBX to be fanless and silent. We have been looking >> at using >> IDE flash disks also called DOM. The performance tests we have >> done so far >> satisfy our requirements, however we are concerned with DOM >> durability. >> >> We have installed debian and vanilla asterisk on 1GB DOM. All >> seems to work >> fine at the moment however will DOM last? How long it will last? >> Is anyone >> able to share similar experience? Any other information/tips? > > You could read the archives from a week or 2 ago under the heading: > Build your own "appliance" > > I use these deices, but I unload them entirely into RAM. > > I have seen devices (eary mikrotik routers?) with them as live (and > ext3 > no less!) filesystems, but I would be very concerend about their > lifespan. > > One thing to note and this might well shaft you is that they use > POI mode > rather than DMA (or at least the ones I'm using do) so they will > really > crowbar the bus & cpu when doing transfers to/from them, however > with only > 4-6 people and not doing much like writing voicemail, etc. you may not > notice it. > > If you're sticking a "normal" disctibution on it, I'd suggest > dumping the > DOM and getting a laptop type IDE/SATA drive and using that > instead. It's > not silent, but will be very quiet. > > Gordon >
As an extra option, I have a couple of nslu2's running asterisk 1.4 very happily. I'd guess 6 users would be about the limit for these boxes as they only have 32Mb of RAM, but they are small, quiet and cheap. One is running from a USB harddrive and the other from a pen drive. In theory you might be able to squeeze Asterisk onto the builtin flash, but I haven't bothered. Tim. _______________________________________________ Sign up now for AstriCon 2007! September 25-28th. http://www.astricon.net/ --Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com-- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
