Jun 12, 74 0 0. With the Atom, a Gigabit adapter, and some GB HDs, I would imagine some great always-on home file servers can be had which are much faster and more flexible than the specialized NAS offerings out there.
I think the file server niche really should become the next big thing, and I can't wait until better NAS solutions become mainstream. EarthwormJim Diamond Member. Oct 15, 3, 0 I don't think you can buy an Atom individually.
They come attached to a motherboard already. Unless you're seriously concerned about power draw, you'd probably be better off getting an Athlon X2 or a cheap Pentium Dual core than an Atom. Jan 25, 7, 22 I had an Atom running as a file server. It works fine for this. About the same power envelope and much higher performance. As a NAS, the Atom is fine though.
The thing with me was, once I had a computer running all the time in the house, I kept coming up with things to do with it. It started as a NAS box for backing up my wife and my computers, but then I set up a Hamachi VPN server for remote log-ins, and then I set up a webcam so that I could watch the house when I was on vacation, and then I set it up as a Tivo-like system running Beyond TV, and then I bought a Blu-ray drive and started watching Blu-ray movies on it Blu-ray players for a computer are half what a standalone Blu-ray player costs , and it didn't take long working down this list before I ran into performance limits with the Atom motherboard that I had.
Now I'm using it as a Slingbox and I'm not sure that the Pentium M is fast enough for this streaming TV over the internet to my laptop. For me, though, I am really looking at an ultra low wattage system. I am hoping for something like 30W total for an always-on solution. Blain Lifer. Oct 9, 23, 3 I love the idea of a dual core Atom also.
But the limited MB configurations keep me away. Mar 9, 1, 0 0. Great low power file server and am running server 08 on it. JeffreyLebowski Lifer. Aug 23, 15, 1 As a file server it will do fine. Just don't go overboard with what you expect the processor to do. It is a low power low performance chip in comparrison to an average desktop chip.
All cooling is passive. Measurements were taken at Idle sitting at the desktop , just before the file load completed approximately minute duration , and after one-hour of the Orthos and FurMark Testing.
The temps seemed to reach stability after an hour. This provided the information needed. The hyper threaded Atom cores make its two cores report as four. I was a bit concerned about the Stress testing using Orthos and FurMark. It took many minutes for the core temps to reach their normal idle temps after the stress testing. System Power Usage Wattage used was recorded while the Temperature testing was performed.
A Kill-O-Wat was used for the measurements. It also shows how overpowered a W PSU is for a box like this. Its about ten times more wattage than is required. However, the box with only the new SilenX 14db fan is very quiet.
Build Step Two Step Two was the most horrific part of the build. Eventually, I was able to backup my entire network, and run a successful Recovery test from the server. I think I might have been happier not knowing these things. To summarize: 1. A MS Windows Vista Ultimate machine had a faulty hard drive, which only had errors under the load of backup.
Partials work, and it can be completely backed-up when connected to the wired-LAN. It took many hours to debug these issues.
Number 3 is still there. Considerable computer and network knowledge is needed to set-up and proper use a WHS. I would recommend anyone considering backup with WHS, to buy an external hard drive for each machine on the LAN, set it up for backup, and declare victory. The box more than meets the minimum requirements for a backup server. I still wonder if the Chenbro ESBK would make a better platform for a passively cooled server.
The wattages on this box are tiny. If I do have an issue, its with how hard it was to get completely WHS operational. A WHS installation is not a turn-key operation.
The hot swap bays make it very easy to reconfigure the boot drive for this box. A future project is to reconfigure the box to boot MS Windows 7 from the SSD and take the system for a couple of laps. The Seasonic's PSU fan is now exhausting the case. The rebuild gives much lower operating temperatures.
However, these increases in power usage and noise are more than offset by the better than halving of the operating temperatures. I spent some time debugging this. Incremental backups worked fine. Full backups completed, but I had to reboot the WHS to bring the box back online. First I thought it was the network. Then I thought it was the ION chipset driver.
Finally, it came down to the Ethernet NIC. Full backups worked with a wireless card installed. I tried it, and it works. After installing Hamachi I can do the same thing from computers in 3 distinct locations, and get nightly backups of my laptop from anywhere in the world. Currently backing up 6 machines combo of Vista and Win 7, both 32 and 64 bit without any modifications to the standard process. The real problem here is finding a Mini-ITX case with an unobstructed 5.
I have an older laptop with a 1. Laptop itself only consumes 20W idle and 45W when doing prime That makes me smile. It's worked great. I'm actually pulling the drives and plan on selling the rest, because I've built a Core i5 server for hosting a few virtualized environments, and will have plenty of horsepower left over for NAS purposes. But that little dual Atom rig has been quite the wonderful surprise.
Easily handles the max transfer speed from my other machines over a GigE connection, and was running a Symfony install off of it for testing plug-ins, no complaints on performance at all.
The best part about the MSI is just how small and quiet it is. I'll be mucking around with a lot of Wake On LAN and sleep settings on the new machine to make sure it's not sucking down gobs of power and making a bunch of noise when it's idle.
My Core2Duo T at full load doesn't even reach 50C. Granted, that's in an actively-cooled case, but 98C would scare me in almost any situation. I already have a very large and capable UPS.
A lappy by itself with its single drive would not have protected storage the way the multi-drive WHS has. When you add-up the wattage of the attached external drive power supply, I believe you would equal to or exceed the wattage of this WHS Server. Also, adding more than one high bandwith eSATA drive would be difficult to a lappy.
Putting some racing slicks on a Vespa ain't ever gonna make it fast. There is nothing to "take" for some laps when the CPU is a current gen Atom, unless you mean using benchmarks from WHS just checks the master against the backup, doesn't it? It doesn't actually checksum each file and then use that to figure out which has gone bad, does it?
You musn't confuse redundancy with data integrity. While both are related to availablity, they are different. Redundancy is the ability of a system to continue providing access to data after a drive failure.
Redundancy is achieved through the duplication of drives, parity-type RAID, or folder duplication and distribution WHS does folder duplication and distribution.
Disks can corrupt data without detection. Data integrity errors include: Disk Controllers causing misdirected writes, device drivers corrupting data read from the disk, and file system errors resulting from an un-clean shutdown while writes were pending.
All WHS provides is redundancy. Data integrity comes with Enterprise-class controllers and drives. They have availablity features like byte embedded parity sectoring with the controlleer providing automatic error detection and correction background processing. That is a miniumum 5-digit dollar setup. My room temp is probably around c.
I'm not. It's in their own literature. That's all you really have to say. You get a level of integrity and redundancy not available on any other file system running on commodity hardware that I'm aware of. Slick app. Unfortunately, they don't have any side-by-side hot-swap wireframes like I have installed. So, maybe I'm missing something, but what is the advantage of this system over this Acer?
The footprint of the DIY system is larger, it uses smaller, slower 2. Assuming we're talking about the 45nm Diamondville, it's rated for a maximum temperature of I wouldn't be surprised at all if that thing doesn't last much longer than a year. You've got to get some convection going in that case. Hot air wants to rise and the top of your case is sealed. This isn't good. Stop everything you're doing, turn it off, fix the cooling.
You're a process going haywire away from the system never working again. The Acer does not have a handle. Why do Arisians build the Budget Box, when there are cheaper Dell's? Do you have an Acer? How many watts does it draw? How loud is that 70mm fan on the back? BTW, you need to buy a second drive for the Acer to have redundant storage. Not sure what you're concerned about. I've been watching the temps for a couple of weeks. At the low end, it's tough to beat an OEM system.
Well, more capacity for less money is pretty compelling in a WHS machine. And IME, one's storage needs expand over time, so what's adequate now may not be in the immediate future.
I don't have it, though I've been looking at it for a while. Other Arsians have it and speak well of it, though. I'd imagine the power draw is very slightly higher than your build as it uses desktop drives rather than laptop drives. After which, I'd still have less money and time invested than in a DIY solution. All it takes is a rogue process or something to get hung up and you're smashing the CPU's specs like kids in a greenhouse. That thing needs better cooling, especially if you ever intend to even show Win7 to it.
Orthos, a fairly moderate load x out-heats it easily , is throwing your CPU twelve degrees above what it's designed for. Even Furmark, which doesn't really load the CPU very much at all it's almost entirely a pixel-shader benchmark , is sending your temps six degrees above worst case scenario! You've erred somewhere in the build, badly designed the case, neglected airflow, something somewhere is severely screwed up to have your CPU running so ungodly hot even when idle.
You should be seeing idle temps in the fifties to low sixties. I know you want to feel proud over an aesthetically pleasing completed project, but your project is not complete.
It's very simple, you need some airflow over those heatsinks. An instruction set refers to the basic set of commands and instructions that a microprocessor understands and can carry out.
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