[Soekris] 6501-70 compatible SSD and video card
Hi list, Thinking of building a mini desktop with a 6501-70 to use as a low resources X environment (mainly terminal + web browsing on OpenBSD) Do you have any recommendations for both SSD drives and video cards (DVI and/or mini display port)? Cheers, josh ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] 6501-70 compatible SSD and video card
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 12:33:42AM +0800, Josh wrote: Hi list, Thinking of building a mini desktop with a 6501-70 to use as a low resources X environment (mainly terminal + web browsing on OpenBSD) Do you have any recommendations for both SSD drives and video cards (DVI and/or mini display port)? Cheers, josh I followed a previous recommendation and purchased a Crucial M500 120GB mSATA Internal Solid State Drive (CT120M500SSD3) and so far so good. I've only had my soekris for about a week now but OpenBSD has been happily running on it without any issues. -- James Turner ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] 6501-70 compatible SSD and video card
On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 12:39 AM, James Turner ja...@calminferno.net wrote: Do you have any recommendations for both SSD drives and video cards (DVI and/or mini display port)? I followed a previous recommendation and purchased a Crucial M500 120GB mSATA Internal Solid State Drive (CT120M500SSD3) and so far so good. I've only had my soekris for about a week now but OpenBSD has been happily running on it without any issues. Hi James, noted with thanks. If you ever have a chance to plug a video card in (that works), please let me know, Cheers, ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] 6501-70 compatible SSD and video card
On 15/03/14 17:39, James Turner wrote: I followed a previous recommendation and purchased a Crucial M500 120GB mSATA Internal Solid State Drive (CT120M500SSD3) and so far so good. I've only had my soekris for about a week now but OpenBSD has been happily running on it without any issues. I tried a Crucial M500 240G mSATA in a net6501-70. But it had a weird behaviour - on a cold boot it was fine, but the BIOS did not seem to see it after a warm reset. Either doing a reboot in the OS, or using the front panel reset button, left it unable to see the drive to boot from. However a physical power cycle always booted OK. YMMV of course :) It may have been just that drive unit (we only tried one) We ended up just sticking to Intel 525's and have had no problems with them since. Cheers Colin ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] 6501-70 compatible SSD and video card
On Sat 15 Mar 2014 06:10:08 PM Colin Petrie wrote: On 15/03/14 17:39, James Turner wrote: I followed a previous recommendation and purchased a Crucial M500 120GB mSATA Internal Solid State Drive (CT120M500SSD3) and so far so good. I've only had my soekris for about a week now but OpenBSD has been happily running on it without any issues. I tried a Crucial M500 240G mSATA in a net6501-70. But it had a weird behaviour - on a cold boot it was fine, but the BIOS did not seem to see it after a warm reset. Either doing a reboot in the OS, or using the front panel reset button, left it unable to see the drive to boot from. However a physical power cycle always booted OK. YMMV of course :) It may have been just that drive unit (we only tried one) We ended up just sticking to Intel 525's and have had no problems with them since. I haven't had a problem with my m4. Could be something quirky with the m500, maybe a power draw issue on start? Or just a defective part. Cheers Colin ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech -- Thomas Fjellstrom tho...@fjellstrom.ca ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
Re: [Soekris] 6501-70 compatible SSD and video card
Any compatible Intel SSD should work okay. Couple of them are also available on Soekris's website. I can't recall if it was the European one, but you can check the models - they are also available in Amazon as well. Best regards, Nikola Gyurov On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 5:52 PM, Thomas Fjellstrom tho...@fjellstrom.ca wrote: On Sat 15 Mar 2014 06:10:08 PM Colin Petrie wrote: On 15/03/14 17:39, James Turner wrote: I followed a previous recommendation and purchased a Crucial M500 120GB mSATA Internal Solid State Drive (CT120M500SSD3) and so far so good. I've only had my soekris for about a week now but OpenBSD has been happily running on it without any issues. I tried a Crucial M500 240G mSATA in a net6501-70. But it had a weird behaviour - on a cold boot it was fine, but the BIOS did not seem to see it after a warm reset. Either doing a reboot in the OS, or using the front panel reset button, left it unable to see the drive to boot from. However a physical power cycle always booted OK. YMMV of course :) It may have been just that drive unit (we only tried one) We ended up just sticking to Intel 525's and have had no problems with them since. I haven't had a problem with my m4. Could be something quirky with the m500, maybe a power draw issue on start? Or just a defective part. Cheers Colin ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech -- Thomas Fjellstrom tho...@fjellstrom.ca ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech ___ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
