[Arm-netbook] Home microserver based on ARM

[Alison Chan]

if you are looking for low power consumption this is achieveable with
a x86 computer and dc-dc converter power supply.
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article601-page1.html for example (spcr
are an excellent resource for low noise/low power consumption
computing.)

Cheers,
alison

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Arokux X <arokux at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Scott Sullivan <scott at ss.org> wrote:
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>> On 09/23/2013 12:56 PM, Arokux X wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> FreeDOS is fine, it costs (almost) nothing.
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>> 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_.
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> I've noticed that, that is why I'm asking.
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>> If you can still find it, I'm using the ASUS E35M1-I for my NAS.
>> http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/E35M1I/
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>> 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
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> Thanks
> Arokux
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>> Scott Sullivan
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