Take the slowest miniITX board,power supply, add 256MB RAM, 4 port SATA card, cage for it all and you'll be out no less than $400. Add in the time to setup a CF based distro with a simple web interface and hot swap abilities on the hard drive and I'd gladly pay at least $500 for the box. At that point, $600 isn't looking so bad. $649 is MSRP. Cost (for resellers) really isn't much less than $600. ComputerBase couldn't sell one for less because by the time you pay for shipping you *might* make 5% when selling for $600.
--- Mike Cherba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Given that I'm used to dealing with systems that are limited > to 16MB of > NOR flash tops, a CF based setup seems roomy. Plus you could > always > swap out the CF card for a larger one and transfer the > partitions > across. But for $600+ for a diskless system I think the price > is a > little steep. the BOM for the controller baord is most likely > ~$100 and > the chassis isn't too expensive so they've got to be making > >$400 per > box. you could slap together a mini-itx for less than that > and get the > job done easily. > -Mike > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
