Le mercredi 12 Avril 2006 10:49, Dieter a écrit : > > In the ongoing search for another product and my admin bent on things I > > had another idea. How about a card for doing serious routing? Xorp is > > quickly coming up as a decent routing platform for BGP, it would be nice > > if this card could boost crypto and routing speed. I'll gather some more > > info on what it will take and post again later tonight. > > I've been thinking about a standalone firewall box for home and SOHO. >
This is very common (at least here, in france, it's often mixed with adsl modem). What is much less common are cheap NAS with acceptable performance. You could find some very slow with USB, but true 4 SATA link could be great (this could be converted as NAS but also as backup server with some script based on rsync). Often this kind of box use VIA plateform. But there is quite a lot of hardware bug, all driver are not so good and the power consumption could be much lower. AMD 500 Mhz could be enough with a good IDE controller and a gigabyte ethernet controller. The idea is to create very low power home server (with no needs for video output). A 100W 24h on server cost more than 100€ a year. Home Backup server became more and more needed. I "produce" 8GB per year of pictures. Few month ago a have tested 8 DVDs, 7 have soon some errors ! So DVD are not safe at all. I need some "active" system with feature as SMART that control the state of the disc. You could use 2 discs in RAID 1. If you need more space add 2 more HD 1 year later, recopy your data and few year later you could change the 2 first discs. RAID 1 permit to change a disc if one die. Nowadays, i could juste buy the cheapest x86 system and downclock it but it will burn more than 100W. Soekris is great but with only one IDE port. Nicolas Boulay _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
