{"id":495,"date":"2010-03-09T15:41:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T14:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pfuetzner.de\/matthias\/?p=495"},"modified":"2010-03-09T15:49:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T14:49:58","slug":"small-power-efficient-home-nas-server-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pfuetzner.de\/matthias\/?p=495","title":{"rendered":"Small power efficient home NAS server, revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks ago, my <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pfuetzner.de\/matthias\/?p=268\">small home-server<\/a> died (I assume, of heat, but am not sure, as it had been running more than a year without glitches, still it&#8217;s dead).<\/p>\n<p>As I also wanted to upgrade it regardless, this is a good time to do so&#8230; ;-)<\/p>\n<p>So, my new preferences are:<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Disks no longer attached externally via USB. (USB 2.0 isn&#8217;t as fast as SATA)\n<li>Less power draw (5 external PSUs aren&#8217;t that efficient)\n<li>All in one chassis (less waste of space, possibly also a bit better noise reduction)\n<li>Still IDE for the boot disk\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nSo, in order to have the 4 disks directly attached via SATA (all my 4 USB disks are internally SATA, so I will detach them from their cases, and attach them directly to the SATA ports on a new motherboard) I need a board that has at least 4 SATA ports.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI also wanted to stick with Intel Atom (although, if they would add VT-x support, I would really appreciate that! But that&#8217;s not yet a real requirement, so I can live without that feature).<br \/>\n<br \/>\nFrom the new Atoms the N450 or N470 Atoms aren&#8217;t useful to me, as these CPUs are 32-bit only. So, in order to be able to do a bit more than pure NAS, I want the new D510 CPU.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nTo that effect, I was scanning the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxtech.net\/features\/intel_atom_pineview_motherboards_overview.html\">new Intel Atom D510 boards<\/a>. There aren&#8217;t many yet (the Asus not yet buyable), the Gigabyte, the Jetway, or the Zotac being the ones, that do fulfill my current needs.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWhen I ordered my new board, I was not aware of the Gigabyte board. And the Zotac has WiFi, which I was not willing to pay for, as well as the fact, that it uses Mini-DTX, and not Mini-ITX (OK, not a big issue!). From the Jetway, I love the fact, that it does not need a PSU, as I can run it with a standard external Laptop 12V PSU, which I already have from my old setup.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSo, yesterday, I did order the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jetway.com.tw\/jw\/ipcboard_view.asp?productid=715&#038;proname=NC96FL-410-LF|NC96FL-510-LF\">Jetway NC96-510-LF<\/a> board. The nice thing is: I can re-use the RAM from the old board, as well as the external PSU. I also hope to not need to re-install the OS-disk, as this board seems very close to the old Intel board. I hope, a reconfigure boot will solve that&#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSo, now, my only concern is a new chassis&#8230; ;-)<br \/>\n<br \/>\nRequirements for that are:<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mini-ITX capable\n<li>No PSU\n<li>Hosting 4 x 3.5&#8243; disks\n<li>Hosting 1 x 2.5&#8243; disk (my 1.8&#8243; disk is mounted to a 2.5&#8243; adapter)\n<li>Low noise fan (if at all!)\n<\/ul>\n<p>\nAny recommendations for such a case?<\/p>\n<p>Matthias<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two weeks ago, my small home-server died (I assume, of heat, but am not sure, as it had been running more than a year without glitches, still it&#8217;s dead). As I also wanted to upgrade it regardless, this is a good time to do so&#8230; ;-) So, my new preferences are: Disks no longer attached [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pfuetzner.de\/matthias\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pfuetzner.de\/matthias\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pfuetzner.de\/matthias\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pfuetzner.de\/matthias\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pfuetzner.de\/matthias\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pfuetzner.de\/matthias\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":499,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pfuetzner.de\/matthias\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pfuetzner.de\/matthias\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pfuetzner.de\/matthias\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pfuetzner.de\/matthias\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}