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Shuttle's cube computers

Paul Westbrook | 06 July, 2004 20:26

Shuttle CubesEngadget has a post about Shuttle's new cube computers. These look pretty nice. It looks like there is room for two 3.5" drives and one 5.25" drive.

Since Shuttle isn't sellling them, I wonder what the prices will be. Also I wonder how loud the internal fan is. I just wish that Shuttle would come out with a convection cooled computer. I would definitely buy one of those.

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Network Storage Device

Paul Westbrook | 06 July, 2004 18:53

Linksys Network Storage LinkA while ago, I seriously looked into buying a Network Attached Storage device. I was having problems getting DSL to my house, so I was thinking about moving the server offsite. The only problem with doing this is that currently all of our music is stored on it.

When I looked at the NAS out there they were too expensive. Here is a 80 Gb NAS and print server, for $500. I didn't think that it was worth it, since you can get a computer for that price.

Today I just saw this interesting product. Linksys has their Network Storage Link. The really cool thing about this device is that it is only $80. Here is a review of it. With this, you can attach one or two USB 1 or USB 2 hard drives and put them on your network. It looks like that it uses samba to make the the drives available on the network. Also there is web based administration for the user and permissions. Also, It looks like there is read only access to the files, from the web server.

I wonder if it would be possible to use this device for some of those home mp3 players that get the files from samba shares. I assume that those devices will just use a certain named mount point.

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Quiet linux server

Paul Westbrook | 02 July, 2004 20:43

Right now this my linux server is running in my garage. I would love to put it somewhere in the house, where I can control the dust, but the main problem with this is the noise of running the server in the house. I don't have any areas that are unreachable by our son, or where we wouldn't mind the noise. (Currently there are 4 fans in the case, as well as two drives.)

A while ago I had a G4 Cube, which was great because it was quiet. Something like that would be great, then I could keep the server in the house some where. Even thought the G4 Cube would be perfect in design elements. I did run a server on a PPC computer, with Yellow Dog Linux, and the main problem was getting installing new software. I had to build most of the software myself, and that was a pain. One major requirement is that I can install all software with rpms, so I want to stick with a Fedora installation.
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Rack mounted server

Paul Westbrook | 07 June, 2004 12:18

A while ago I was wanted to colocate one of my servers, but I found out that it was pretty expensive if the sever is not rack mounted. I then looked for a relatively inexpensive rack mounted case for this server, but I couldn't find one.

I ended up using a Linux virtual server through TekTonic since it allows me to run Fedora Core, and I can run what ever software I want to run. But there are some limitiations, like I can not get as much performace as I could if I has my own server.

On /. there is a post of someone that created their own 2U rack mounted server. This is the type of computer that I would want to buy or build.


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