On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Bryan Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am shopping for some XS options to test out ahead of our spring > deployment.
Good idea! > I have looked at the MSI Wind PC, Eee Box, and the Shuttle X2700N. All > have nice small form factors, low prices, and Atom chips. > > I am focused on Intel Atom-based PC's because they seem to be dropping > in price the fastest and there are a number of different vendors selling > atom-based pc's. Also, they are low-power. If you look for machines with VIA CPUs, they are low power dissipation, and often cheap too. We have a few samples at 1cc with heatsinks - no fans! > Eee Box - more expensive but doesn't seem to have the same cooling > problem I talked with Asus engineers who assured there's a version of it with no fans, and a heatsink. Not sure if it's in the catalog though :-/ > Unfortunately, none of these have a spare PCI slot that I can use for > the XS's 2nd NIC card. We are considering using a USB NIC for the eth1. That'll hurt if you have significant traffic. In fact, I'd recommend using the usb nic for eth0 which is guaranteed to have less traffic ;-) > Does anyone know of similar small form factor PC's that do have an extra > PCI slot? Or other good XS choices? Small form factor gets you into hard-to-cool-down devices. Can you handle a large box with a good heatsink? The dusty humid env you describe in Nepal there is going to murder fans quickly... cheers, m -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
