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List:       soekris-tech
Subject:    Re: [Soekris] Using a net6501 as a home server
From:       ED Fochler <deadshift () liquidbinary ! com>
Date:       2012-10-31 15:20:54
Message-ID: loom.20121031T161005-138 () post ! gmane ! org
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I've had no luck with VM, but I didn't try very hard.  I'd recommend against it.

Hard drive power and heat is a serious concern, with 2 of them and no air
movement, you will likely burn up the drives.  Even with a fan, I'd recommend
5400 rpm or equivalent green drives.  Hard drive power consumption is not a very
easy statistic to find, but it does vary, and the big disks you want will be
pretty hot and thirsty.

The additional heat from the PSU components feeding the drives would concern me
too.  I'd add external power to that DVD drive rather than feeding it off the
Soekris.  And I would recommend getting one of the real SSD msata drives and
putting a real OS install on there.  Then you can get the hard drives to spin
down because they won't be in use for regular OS stuff, just big data movement.

As much as I like the Soekris boxes, it sounds like you really want a desktop
case and MoBo with a laptop CPU and some 3.5" drives.

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