Topic: Hardware advice for SAIL

[del]

Hi All,

Has anyone built a SME/SAIL Server on a Mini ITX form factor? If so what motherboard and case do you recommend? Thanks in advanced.

Del

[SARK devs]

HI Del,

I'm giving trade secrets away here, but yes we run SARK on mini-ITX all the time (among other boards).  You have to make sure that your mini-ITX board is running true i686.  A lot of the fanless VIA boards don't.  They run something between i586 and i686 and are useless for our versions of asterisk, (Bristuff).  The "Nehemiah" and "Luke" chips seem to be OK.  We've had good results with VIA PD10000 (Nehemiah) and EK10000 (Luke) boards.   We tend to run them with 512M memory and either a 2Gb or 4Gb SanDisk Extreme III CFCard instead of a hard drive.  If you want to use a conventional hard drive then that's fine too.

Cases; - there're lots to choose from.  Just Google for mini-itx case and you'll find lots.  They very hugely in price and quality but the higher end stuff from companies like Travla is pretty impressive.  We've had good results with the Travla C137 and C159.  They aren't cheap but they are extremely well made.

Best

S



 

[del]

Hi Selintra,

Thanks for the info, the VIA PD10000 (Nehemiah) doesn't appear to be available anymore here in the US, a Google search doesn't come up with and the places that sell it say it is discontinued and a search for the EK10000 (Luke) comes up with this:

http://www.logicsupply.com/products/ek10000g
Is this the one you are referring to? I never thought of using a CF card instead of a HDD, how reliable have you found this? Is 4gb big enough taking into account the voice mail and voice recording storage? Again thanks for yor help.

Del

[SARK devs]

yes that's the correct motherboard.

You need to drop us a line at admin@selintra.com if you are going to run a CFCard.  They are extremely reliable and 4Gb is more than enough.

Best


S