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Simon Waters wrote:
| Neil Williams wrote:
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| | Simon will have something to say about that.
|
| My first two reactions were Mini ITX and Minimac.... So I was going to
| keep quiet.
|
| | Steve's request was for a server - depending on what he needs, MacOSX
| is not
| | necessarily a good choice for a server that needs to work with GNU/Linux
| | boxes.
|
| The Minimac has one of these whisper quiet fans, whereas the Mini-ITX
| were only at 600MHz with no fan when I bought, I think they now go to
| 1GHz, but it is modified Pentium technology, so expect slightly slower
| performance than you might from similar regular desktop speeds, that
| said they have some multimedia hardware.
|
| I suspect the Minimac will soon run Debian if it doesn't already.
|
| http://www.sowerbutts.com/linux-mac-mini/#install
|
| I think we really need to know what the box has to do, when I think
| server I tend to think storage, and all the small ones have tons of fans
| and so are very noisy but fit in 1 or 2U. DELL do cheap quiet servers
| that run Debian well, but they are huge, mine is so quiet I can barely
| hear it even when the disks are working overtime.
|
| Either way making regular boxes quiet is a well documented if relatively
| expensive mod, where as many of the modern PCs start quiet, but will get
| noiser as the bearings on the fans wear.
|
| My mini-itx box (no fans) is dead quiet ("is it on?" kind of quiet)
| apart from the DVD writer, which sounds horrendous in comparison, but
| probably isn't that different from normal.
When I was working at adaptive, we used to use mini-itx hardware for a number of things..
The lower end systems (533) were used as thin clients, these had no moving parts at all.. and yes it was like.. "is it on ?" they were also good while i played with a small knoppix-cluser of about 6 machines.
The slightly higher grade systems (800's) were used in firewalls and small servers.
The 1Ghz systems were being used as multi media thin clients, being able to deliver sound to the desktop when all else is silent.
One thing which was quite nifty is the ability to install up to 4 mini-itx motherboards in to a 1U case, load balanced database server in 1U anyone ??
Mini macs... not used 'em... however i may be able to provide feedback on them soon as someone wants me to look in to them for them.
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