[Server-devel] Recommended tropical island XS hardware

Dan Zubey dzubey at openincident.com
Fri Feb 4 15:53:27 EST 2011


On 02/03/2011 04:31 AM, Tom Parker wrote:
> There are a few people building fanless no-name boxes based on the Intel
> D510MO motherboards. I'm running one of those very successfully as my
> own server, with a 3.5" harddrive it consumes about 25W when powered by
> a wide input PicoPSU and HP Laptop brick (35W with a no-name desktop
> power supply!). Is anyone running a schoolserver with one of these? How
> many students is it good for?
>
> The smallest cases don't take a PCI card (low profile or otherwise) so
> the second ethernet port is still a problem. This
> http://www.bvm-store.com/ProductDetail.asp?fdProductId=547  might work I
> guess?
I've used Jetaway motherboards for similar applications. The Jetaway 
boards have an expansion slot where you can add a daughter board with 
extra Ethernet slots, without taking up any PCI slot space. The extra 
Ethernet port shows up as another jack on the backplane.

-Dan


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