On 10/16/10 12:54 PM, Jeppe Øland wrote:
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Mehma Sarja<[email protected]> wrote.
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* mother board - Supermicro MBD-X7SPA-HF-O,
You probably only want the X7SPA-H since you won't need the Matrox GFX
Ok, so a savings of 44 on the mb
There are lots and lots and lots of Atom based motherboards, but most
of them only have 1 NIC. Adding an extra PCI NIC is still cheaper than
2 nics on the board - simpler but not cheaper.
D510MO is usually around $80, so you have quite a bit of savings there.
Since you are a home user, the WAN side NIC doesn't have to be blazing
fast since you are bound by your connection way before anything else.
I'll take a slow server class board with 2 nics and a memory capacity of
at-least 2 GB.
The SSD really adds a lot to your price.
You could run off a USB stick for a while and see how far that takes you.
(Mine's been running ~6 months on a USB stick now ... and not the
embedded install either).
Jeppe, do you run Snort?
Nah, I don't like it - the USB storage sounds 'temporary.' I am willing
to go down on the mb horsepower, but I want 2 NICs and SSD. So, we came
44 down from 460 to 416. Not bad. What I am hoping for is a consolidator
like netgate.com to come in and build a "popular" bundle and offer it at
350 all inclusive. Or for someone to source a lower-cost vendor.
Mehma
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