[Tfug] Small NAS homebrew cases?

[John Hubbard]

I have always liked asus products and I just discovered that they now make an atom/ion mini itx board and it has 4 sata ports... It might be a little overkill but it would work well as an server. I have been a little disappointed with the flash performance that I've gotten with my zotac atom/ion system but I am sure that it would have no problems serving just about anything that you asked it too.  

-john (from a mobile device)

-----Original Message-----
From: Choprboy <choprboy at dakotacom.net>
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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 20:46:08 
To: Tucson Free Unix Group<tfug at tfug.org>
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Subject: Re: [Tfug] Small NAS homebrew cases?

On Wednesday 23 June 2010 19:54, johngalt1 wrote:
[snip]
> Mini ITX that's the one that's sort of confusing because
> it's smaller than Micro ATX
>
> Adrian, Would you mind listing what motherboard(s) you are
> considering?
>

Umm... One that works!

I really hadn;t settled on any particular motherboard yet. I was looking for 
something small to run a soft raid on and stick away in a corner for backups. 
It is probably going to be an Intel 330 based motherboard, something 
preferably fanless with a gig or two of RAM. Nothing spectacular, but I 
hadn;t chosen anything in particular yet. The case was the bigger issue.

I'm also looking at building a new workstation, which will probably be an Asus 
Z8NA-D6 with dual 5620 processors, many gigs of RAM, and full hardware 
virtualization goodness... But I hadn;t pulled the trigger yet.


Adrian


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