I was thinking of picking up a couple of these and one thing I have stumbled across is that one of the newer supermicro atom boards is too short to be able to use the slot for an extra card in their case.
Can anyone confirm this? Andrew On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Conrad Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > If you are not set on that particular board you can try > http://www.supermicro.com/products/system/1U/#Atom. The 5015A-EHF or the > 5015A-PHF in particular. > > I personally have the 5015A-H and it does the job without any problems. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mehma Sarja [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2010 2:23 PM > To: pfsense > Subject: [pfSense Support] Enclosure recommendations for a Mini ITX > Motherboard > > I've been following the hardware threads comparing embedded versus more > horsepower systems and came to the conclusion that I'd stick with my > embedded Alix board because it is stable and low-power. Recently, however, I > am seeing botnet attempts, reported via OpenDNS, against my home network. > So, I want to run Snort. And here I'd need horsepower. > > I researched an earlier post of "SUPERMICRO MBD-X7SPE-H-O Mini ITX Intel > Atom" board and it looks like a good option. Albeit a bit expensive. It can > handle 4 GB RAM. So the question is what kinds of enclosures are good for > this form-factor? I'll probably go with a laptop drive. The enclosures at my > local Fry's all look pretty flimsy and crappy. > > Mehma > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional > commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
