Top posting because I have nothing specific to reply to...
I built a NAS box over the summer. It's very quiet with a very small
footprint. Its hardware was cheap, and is capable of more than being a
NAS (it's somewhat comparable to a netbook in "horsepower").
Here's what I did. Step one, find an Atom CPU/motherboard combo on
newegg. They run at about $60. I got this
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813186195&cm_re=atom-_-13-186-195-_-Product
It does the job, my only annoyance so far is that the BIOS stops booting
and waits for input if a keyboard and mouse aren't plugged in, so I
can't reboot remotely (shutting down? No problem!). From there, go to
"Browse More Combos" and start picking out your hardware. This deal
looks nice (in fact, it's exactly what I have).
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboDealDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.419871
From there, all you need is a power supply, memory, a hard drive, and
whatever periphials you decide that you need. My NAS box has 1G of RAM
and two 1TB hard drives, it came out to about $250. If this sounds like
too much work, then I suggest this.
http://www.system76.com/product_info.php?cPath=27&products_id=91
That particular box is in use at my mom's CPA firm by the receptionist.
It's a really great computer, and system76 is a very good company.
Hope I helped!
On 08/27/2010 04:39 PM, AZ Pete wrote:
Hi All,
I currently have a linux box that I use to serve MP3s, Videos, etc. as
well as storing backups of emails and documents.
Basically it's serving as a file storage box. However, I need to
replace this box as it's starting to fail (old hardware).
What I want to replace it with is a small footprint, ultra quiet PC of
some kind. Since this box just stores files it doesn't need much in
the way of CPU horsepower. But the main thing I want is for it to be
quiet. I'm tired of listening to fan noise and hard drive hum in my
office (relocating it somewhere else in the house isn't viable).
My thoughts are that it wouldn't even need a large hard drive
installed, since I currently use an external USB 1.5Tb drive (which is
completely silent) to store all of said files.
Does anyone have recommendations for such an animal?
Quiet is the main engineering requirement here, horsepower secondary.
Cheap is good too!
Thanks for all your help!
Peter
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