Re: Re: Smart Meter on trial (BBC Video)

[Geoff H <yahoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At the moment I have just got it installed in a standard (cheap) midi
tower case - I had to replace the PSU with something better as the whole
thing was vibrating like mad - a penalty for buying cheap cases. I shall
keep it in there for a while until I eventually decide what it will end
up as. Initially I was planning on something looking like a NAS box, but
at this stage I didn't want to pay (lots of) money for a small case,
only to find I end up using more disks than the case could cope with.

I will be buying a PCI SATA card for it (preferably 4 port), as the mobo
only has two fitted. That was one of the benefits of some Via C7 mobos
in that they had 4 SATA connectors.

I intend putting some spare 500Gb drives in it soon, so power will
probably increase. When I can, these will then be replaced with WD green
alternatives.

WHS, for me, is still in it's infancy (I only got it running a couple of
days ago) so I am still getting used to it - but so far so good. The
alternative would be a Linux installation, running Samba.

Geoff

Andrew Walker wrote:
> What case did you go for Geoff?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Geoff H
> Sent: 16 January 2009 14:43
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: Smart Meter on trial (BBC Video)
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> Also take a look at mini-itx.com.
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> I have just bought a dual core Atom based Intel board, put 2 Gig of
RAM
> in it and a 1TB WD Green drive. It is currently pulling around 34W
> running WHS.
>
> Geoff
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> Paul Bendall wrote:
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>> Have a look at linitx.com they have a good range of Jetway boards,
the
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>> specific one I was thinking of was:
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>> http://linitx.com/viewproduct.php?prodid=11111
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>> However, to contradict myself slightly I am torn as to whether to
go
>> for a 64bit Via Nano CPU, but I want one the ULV SKUs at the
1.2GHz or
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>> 1.3GHz. The 1.6GHz and 1.8GHz which seem more common draw
>> significantly more power.
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>> The Intel Atom I believe is also an option but although the power
of
>> the CPU is relatively low I understand that the Intel chipset is
not
>> very efficient and draws a considerable amount of power. I am also
not
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>> sure if the Atom is completely 64bit capable.
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>> HTH
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>> Paul
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>> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Vargster <vargster@...> wrote:
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>>> Paul, have you got a URL for the Jetway?
>>>
>>> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Paul Bendall
<paul@...>wrote:
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