<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Scott Sullivan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scott@ss.org" target="_blank">scott@ss.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 09/23/2013 12:56 PM, Arokux X wrote:<br>
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A home server with NAS capability. I'm aware of different boards, but<br>
I'd like to buy something with a nice case already, with enough place<br>
for HDDs. Basically it should look like [1]. I do not want any software<br>
supplied with it.<br>
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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.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>FreeDOS is fine, it costs (almost) nothing.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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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_.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I've noticed that, that is why I'm asking. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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If you can still find it, I'm using the ASUS E35M1-I for my NAS.<br>
<a href="http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/E35M1I/" target="_blank">http://www.asus.com/<u></u>Motherboards/E35M1I/</a><br>
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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.<br>
<a href="http://www.qnap.com/en/compare.php?lang=en&sn=822&cp=1&pro=3415,3418,13444" target="_blank">http://www.qnap.com/en/<u></u>compare.php?lang=en&sn=822&cp=<u></u>1&pro=3415,3418,13444</a><span class=""><font color="#888888"><br>
</font></span></blockquote><div><div></div><div> <br></div><div></div><div></div><div>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?<br>
<br></div><div>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.<br><br></div><div></div><div></div><div>Thanks<br>Arokux<br></div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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