On 11/07/2012 20:12, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
John Rumm wrote:
On 11/07/2012 12:41, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
John Rumm wrote:
On 10/07/2012 23:43, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
John Rumm wrote:
On 10/07/2012 12:46, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
dennis@home wrote:


"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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Intel Atom board, no graffix at all :-)

Does a little bit of file serving web serving, dns, backups..
probably draws about 10W.

I'm going to use my Pi for that, just ordered a 64G USB stick for a
drive.
No fans, 5W.

Now how to case it?


well that is the problem. with the Pi.

needs a case, a power supply and and a SATA interface because 2TB of
mirrored disk caint be done with flash

I would have thought USB2 interfaced disk would be adequate for many
home server applications.


Hard to connect that to three computers simultaneously

Don't think you can connect SATA drives to three computers at once
easily either...


that was the point of the atoms server

and you can't plug a USB drive into that?

(sorry not really getting your point on this... my comment on USB
drives was not to suggest they would replace the server, but would be
connected to it, and would in most domestic situations not introduce
sufficient reduction in performance for it to be an issue)


why have an extra box?

You still have to case the server. Why add boxes and power supplies?

If you are worried about that, then the pi is probably small enough to
fit in the drive case if you choose carefully, and will run from the
same 5V required by the drive.


--
Cheers,

John.

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