Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 15:16:24 -0700 From: Brent Wiese <brently1@bjwcs.com> To: Benjamin Keating <motionsiren@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD & mini-ITX Message-ID: <42B9E338.1070307@bjwcs.com> In-Reply-To: <781e2bc0050622144315cf3b25@mail.gmail.com> References: <781e2bc0050622144315cf3b25@mail.gmail.com>
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Benjamin Keating wrote: >I've been eyeing up these mini-ITX boards - would like to make a quite >little file server. Does anyone here run a mini-ITX board (what >model)? Does it work out of the box? Anything not supported? I'd go >for one of VIA's as AMD's and others are still a little new and >pricey. Recommend a shop to purchase from (in the US)? > > I've tried several of the VIA mini-itx boards (not with FreeBSD tho). Not bad. But: 1: cases aren't super plentiful and the nice ones aren't cheap 2: for a file server, I want gig-E, something not built on to the VIA boards, at least not since I've last checked (could be available now) 3: I think it actually ends up being cheaper to buy a little cube system w/ a standard AMD/Intel chip 4: Many of the cases for the via boards don't have multiple drive bays... since you mention file server, I assume you'd want to at least mirror 2 drives 5: for the price, you may just want to consider buying a USB-NAS adapter (Linksys and Dlink both have them) or getting a Buffalo Terrastation (or similar) and save yourself a lot of work assembling, etc. Of course, this assumes you only want to use the box as a fileserver.
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