Thanks - I'll look at the Eaton - I had hopedAPC would get better now they were owned by Schneider, but apparantly not...
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OT - New PC
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Why bother when you can get more capacity on a USB stick.
For linux at least you can boot from usb stick. The Microserver also has a usb port on the motherboard so you can boot from a usb stick in that if you want.
No, they are very nice trays with all the requisite screws supplied (attached to the door, plus torx key to fit)
USB ports aplenty, 4 on front and another four round the back, plus the one inside.
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SSDs run fast and quiet. Might be worth getting one of those along with a SATA drive.
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In message , snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com writes
SSDs are SATA
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I'm going to do that for my router/firewall which wil be (probably) based on an Intel fanless mini-itx. The current OpenWRT on WRT54GS dies if I saturate
100MBit *routed* (and that does happen due to the mix of private and public IPs I have) - and it cannot do gig at all.It is also the ADSL endpoint using a true ADSL model with PPPoA->PPPoE translation. Needs beefing up.
So far I am looking at an Intel® Desktop Board D945GSEJT (mini ITX Atom), 2B RAM (dirt cheap), small SSD and extra gigabit NIC(s) as the router/ADSL enpoint/firewall. Then I can run Debian on it and stop titting about with OpenWRT.
It will probably end up as a one-armed router/firewall using a tagged VLAN uplink (except the ADSL which may use a second NIC) to a Netgear 8 port SmartSwitch which can handle VLANs.
But for my main data storage, SSD is too expensive - I have 1.5TB of stuff now.
I'm going to move my DNS and email and web to external hosted - I'm playing with an Amazon EC2 micro instance (basically a Xen VM) - seems fine and the calculator suggests for my use, it would cost US$17 per month - and EC2 experience is useful for my CV. I'm trying to decide now how much I trust them!
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En el artículo , Tim Watts escribió:
Until SSDs approach the same price point per GB as hard drives, the best compromise at the moment is to put the OS on a small (128GB) SSD and your data on spinning rust.
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For an IDE based optical drive? That's all I have kicking about here...
That's what I'll probably try.
Oh come on guys, here I am trying to find reasons not to buy and you are shooting 'em all down!
Not an issue once up and running it'll be sat in a corner without monitor keyboard or mouse.
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I've been running one (but with a VIA board) for afew years. Not even an SSD - just a CF card.
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Or mSATA or IDE.
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Serial ATA is serial ATA dense
Show me a current SSD with an ATA interface
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En el artículo , Dave Liquorice escribió:
SATA. It's not as if the drives are dear.
There are no legacy interfaces - no PS/2, IDE, serial, parallel.
Mine's next to the telly. When I get a round tuit, it'll become a media centre as well as a backup server.
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En el artículo , Bob Eager escribió:
Tried that in the Microserver - a SATA to CF adapter with a 16GB card. It died and I haven't had a chance to look at it yet, so it's running on spinning rust at the mo.
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We bought a bunch of cheap Fujitsu boxes, they seem to be OK. Some kind of Primergy IIRC. That was a couple of years back so all the models will have changed.
Andy
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JFGI yourself.
They also do them as PCIe cards and in other formats.
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I did say current, dense
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How much more honest it would have been to admit that you were wrong.
Diversion, denbhoi's favourite tactic every time he is caught out.
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Still the liar I see.
There are many SSDs available that are not SATA interfaced. Even someone like you can FGI and prove yourself a liar.
Geof probably can't spell IDE and SSD in the same search term or even know where to select the shopping option so he can find whats for sale.
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You can buy, for example, Civil War bullets. Does NOT make them *CURRENT*.
Many of the ones that are available seem to be from companies that specialise in buying up old stock - or simply ended up with too many almost unsaleable ones.
There might even be a handful that have actually been manufactured this year - difficult to be sure. But the proportion of the market is, shall we say, vanishing.
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You always are denbhoi.
Oh look, diversion - again. The point was about ATA interfaces.
And even a proven liar like you can cut and paste a link. The fact that you do not is the proof that you told a lie.
More diversion.
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Even if no IDE ones are being made then it still doesn't make SSD == SATA like geof claimed.
If you FGI then you will find you can buy 64g and above IDE SSDs so they ain't exactly old even in computer terms.
Then there are the newer formats and PCIe cards too.
Of course firth is too thick to even work out that adding even more different types of SSD is just adding to the proof that geof is wrong and will claim its wriggling. But that's firth for you, a waste of space.