[OT] Cool tiny tiny PC

I have just today received this:

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a Jetway Jetway JBC365 Fanless Dual LAN PC with quad core cpu.

Wedged a 4GB stick of RAM in (which passed 1 cycle of Memtest86) and also a 240GB Sandisk Extreme Pro SSD (SATA).

Only criticism is it's a bit fiddly getting the HDD cables to fold up nicely away from pointy pin headers, but after a few goes I found a reasonable way to lay them. You can stick mSATA sticks in but the chipset is a bit fussy and does not like all types of SSD (in particular it's not been tested with Plextor or Sandisk - the only 2 types I will touch).

But boy, it is *small*. I want it to be an Internet gateway, firewall, essential services like DNS, DHCP and critical filestore ( $HOME basically). The 2 gig ports lend it to that (though of course you could pull a VLAN stunt with one port).

It's running Mint linux 64 bit live right now and I'm stress testing the crap out of it. Bonnie++ results are good, got 8 cpuburn processes going at once and the temperatures are after about 1/2 hour (with room at about 20C and this thing has no fans):

Disk internal temp: 42C

CPU cores: 49-52C

System temp: 47C/27C (I suspect that is chipset/ambient board)

All of those have a very large margin before maximums.

When I've finished a badblocks run, I try it for feel of Mint - but I suspect it could also make a quite convincing media device (stapped to the back of a TV) or even a plausible desktop machine.

Only just got it so it could go bang tomorrow - but thought some folk might me interested...

Reply to
Tim Watts
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I am. I need a smaller, less power hungry machine to run my Smoothwall on.

Reply to
Huge

OK whats it actually cost though... Brian

Reply to
Brian Gaff

I've read some good reports on these mini PCs and they seem to perform very well considering the miniscule size of them. I'm watching with interest and may well buy one, but I'll wait to see if more competition improves them even more.

Reply to
Bod

I have not speedtested the Realtek NICs yet - that will probably be next week - happy to post the result - I'll do some iperf tests using both and see how hard it hits the CPU and if the NICs actually have drive at line speed more or less[1]

[1] Probably these days, but years ago, s**te NICs would manage maybe 40% of the line speed unless they were good Intel ones.

If you are happy with the mSATA offerings that are stated compatible, (Kingston, Intel) they would be easier to fit. I went for Sandisk Extreme Pro regular SATA as for no extra money, it has a 10 year guarantee.

Reply to
Tim Watts

£186 plus RAM plus disk

4GB SODIMM RAM was £40

Disk was about £100 for 240GB of 10 year guaranteed Sandisk SSD.

Has 4 USB ports, 2 NICs, 1 DVI out that can drive VGA via supllied adaptor.

Comes with DIN rail clips, feet to stand up and wall mount brackets.

External PSU.

Reply to
Tim Watts

I've just had my son hammer the linux screensavers a bit and he thought they were pretty smooth.

It's is probably not as fast as an i3 laptop, but it feels usable (need to hook up to internet to try youtube) but it does kick an Atom's arse off into the next field.

Reply to
Tim Watts

USB2 or USB3 or both?

Reply to
Bod

Good question...

Spec says 2 USB2 and 2 USB3

Reply to
Tim Watts

Depends on the model, but some models have USB3 on the front and USB2 on the back.

Owain

Reply to
spuorgelgoog

Yes, I've checked other models, but thanks.

Reply to
Bod

Drivers are not. An OS release which doesn't know about USB3 at all will not be able to use the USB3 ports at all, even in fall-back.

Reply to
Andrew Gabriel

USB3 flash sticks work fine on Windows 7 and even XP with USB2 sockets.

I've not tried them on my Linux system (Zorin).

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Bod

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Reply to
Bod

ITHM loading an old OS wont be able to find the USB3 chips so the ports wont work.

RailMaster doesn't like the USB3 ports on my thinkpad yoga so they aren't that compatible.

Reply to
dennis

Hmmm. I need 3 NICs. Any way to do that?

Reply to
Huge

If you have a look on the original link, IIRC there's one with 4 NICs.

Reply to
Tim Watts

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