[Arm-netbook] Home microserver based on ARM

[Arokux X]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Scott Sullivan <scott at ss.org> wrote:

> On 09/23/2013 12:56 PM, Arokux X wrote:
>
>> A home server with NAS capability.  I'm aware of different boards, but
>> I'd like to buy something with a nice case already, with enough place
>> for HDDs. Basically it should look like [1]. I do not want any software
>> supplied with it.
>>
>
> It is incredible rare and not the natural state of the industry for device
> to be supplied without software. The lowest I've seen any vendor go was
> shipping FreeDOS. Even among the ARM dev boards it very, very rare.
>

FreeDOS is fine, it costs (almost) nothing.


>
> To get the requirement for no software you need be buying and assembling
> your own PC parts. There are plenty of miniITX boards that will do the job,
> some of them are even fan-less. A nice number of chassis to. The market for
> ARM systems in this kind of consumer commodity area doesn't exist _yet_.
>

I've noticed that, that is why I'm asking.

>
> If you can still find it, I'm using the ASUS E35M1-I for my NAS.
> http://www.asus.com/**Motherboards/E35M1I/<http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/E35M1I/>
>
> Otherwise you need to hijack an existing mass-market product, like the one
> you listed. Here is also a small sample of QNAP products.
> http://www.qnap.com/en/**compare.php?lang=en&sn=822&cp=**
> 1&pro=3415,3418,13444<http://www.qnap.com/en/compare.php?lang=en&sn=822&cp=1&pro=3415,3418,13444>
>

Hijacking something like this is fine. However these boxes are very
expensive. TS-412 - with Marvell 1.2 GHz, 256MB RAM costs 300 EUR (!!)
whereas HP ProLiant with Turion II 2.2GHz and 2Gb RAM will cost 190 EUR. I
wonder why? Maybe because of the software that QNAP ships?

I do not want HP ProLiant because it is too much power hungry (at least I
think so) for a server that will be mostly idle.

Thanks
Arokux


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