Topic: What mini-itx are you using whith sme?

[hanscees]

Hi,

I have replaced my epia-v with an epia pd mini-itx. It has two nics and a 600mhz fanless cpu.
http://www.viavpsd.com/product/epia_PD_spec.jsp?motherboardId=241

My harddisk performance is a lot better now:

hdparm -tT /dev/hda

 Timing cached reads:   224 MB in  2.01 seconds = 111.40 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:   80 MB in  3.07 seconds =  26.07 MB/sec

The performance of the two nics is good enough for a 100mb card.
I am running sme 7 beta 4 on it, which installed fine.
Of course it is still a beta.

greetings

Hans-Cees

[wellsi]

I currently have 3 mini-itx computers:

EPIA 5000 (500MHz fanless)

/dev/hda:
 Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  2.12 seconds = 60.38 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  2.02 seconds = 31.68 MB/sec

/dev/hda:
 Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  2.57 seconds = 49.81 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  2.52 seconds = 25.40 MB/sec

EPIA V 800MHz (now fanless after eplacing the fan wit h a bigger heatsink)

No results as its memory failed

EPIA TC 1GHz (now fanless as above)

/dev/hda:
 Timing buffer-cache reads:   128 MB in  1.01 seconds =126.73 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  2.22 seconds = 28.83 MB/sec


The EPIA V is the test machine for the 6.x maintenance updates - it runs 6.0/6.0.1 fine

The EPIA 5000 is my 'main' server - nice quiet and reliable

The EPIA TC normally is my wife's PC running FC4 but currently being used for the 'maintenance updates'

I'm a great fan of these little things. I would like one with two NICS, but one being a gigabyte NIC. I may have to defect to a Pentium M instead.

Ian

[persmith]

I'm a great fan of these little things. I would like one with two NICS, but one being a gigabyte NIC. I may have to defect to a Pentium M instead.

If you by "Gigabyte" mean Gigabit, I think that Via has a new model with dual LAN, where one of the NIC's is a 10/100/1000.
http://www.viavpsd.com/product/epia_dp_spec.jsp?motherboardId=321

Regards
Per Smith

[wellsi]

Thanks, I hadn't seen that, it appears it just went on sale this month. From looking at this screenshot they are ~£280 or ~$520

http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/akiba/hotline/20050917/image/nvtd3.html

so I want one but they are not cheap. Gigabit Ethernet + SATA looks to be good.