Re: Embeded System Recomendation

Paul Carpenter wrote:
On Tuesday, in article
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rosco111@xxxxxxxxx "Rosco111" wrote:

I have been searching for a system that meets my needs, but I'm having alot
of trouble. I am looking for a low power consumption (will be on 24/7)
system that has a processor or 1ghz or more, 512m ram or more. I also
would prefer that the system have a gigabit network card but an open pci
can take care of that for me. I am also looking for serial ata ( will be
used as a file server running FreeNAS (http://www.freenas.org), but ide
only is fine too as long as there is another open pci slot. Any
recomedations?


Do a search for mini-itx and nano-itx, lots of small servers use them.

To get to specifics, I bought one of these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813153093
also at http://www.mini-box.com/HYBRID-C7-1-2G?sc=8&category=99 and other places.

1.2GHz fanless processor
1 GB RAM
2 SATA plus 2 UltraDMA ports
100 Mb ethernet onboard.

You can add 1-3 gigabit ports with a special add-on card ($22-52 board price range).

I chose it because the chart at http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=2 indicates this board takes 6W to operate. I haven't validated it myself, but plan to in the next few months.

I'm running Linux on it from a purpose-built live USB stick image for my robot.

Pete
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