[nylug-talk] Slim home server for samba and subversion (and possibly IMAP)

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 17:46 -0400, Ajai Khattri wrote:
> Also the Drobo device (Google for it) comes in two pieces: a dumb drive 
> box which you can use alone or with an add-on device that plugs into your 
> network.

I have real issues with external storage, unless it's SAS (which is not
commodity, so a non-consideration here).  USB and FireWire have time-out
issues to the point even Apple had to admit shortcomings of FireWire.
eSATA is a ball of mechanical non-standards (don't get me started).
Most cheap NAS' just have piss-poor performance (especially when you try
to use a GbE MAC on a slow microcontroller with an embedded NPE/SPE).

On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 17:46 -0400, Ajai Khattri wrote:
> In your case, could you not use a mini ITX machine to serve as file server 
> and authenticator in front of your drives?

Consider Intel's $60-70 Yonah Mini-ITX solutions:  
http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/D201GLY2/index.htm  

They say "MicroATX compatible" but are Mini-ITX mechanical (6.7" x
6.7").  They are much better than anything ViA offers and beat AMD's
aging Geode NX (embedded Athlon, not to be confused with the older Geode
GX or LX, which are Cyrix/NS licensed designs).


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