[Gllug] Portable and network storage.

Mark Preston mark at markpreston.co.uk
Sat Nov 15 02:37:07 UTC 2008


Jose Luis Martinez wrote:
> Laptops sound like a good solution, my only concern is if they are
> really able to work 24x7 for any appreciable length of time.
> 
> As most people know, they may get quite hot, which would indicate to
> me that in the longer term they would be more prone to failures if
> running constantly ....

I built my own PC about three years ago. It's the only one I've ever
built and it's been very successful. I used an aopen motherboard for an
intel pentium M processor and stuck this in a great big Coolermaster
Stacker 810 case. I cut off all the case fans and adjusted the BIOS so
that the processor fan only comes on above 70 degrees C - it very rarely
kicks in. It has internal attachments for a DVD player, a floppy drive,
an iomega zip drive and a DDS tape drive. It has eight USB ports which
run a scanner, printer, DVD rewriter and an external 400GB hard drive
and some USB sticks. The main advantage is that it is very quiet. It
runs at around 50 watts. It gets switched off when I go on holidays, and
occasionally if a program crashes badly, but otherwise it gets left on
all the time. I currently run Sidux (their first ever release which was
called Chaos IIRC). So, basically the last couple of years have drifted
by without the urge to re-install Linux which was something of a weekly
(or even more often) habit a few years previously.

Further details can be found at:
http://i915ga.gratiswiki.dk/cgi-bin/gratiswiki.pl?Mark_Preston#anchor

I suppose if I were to do a similar thing now I would be looking at
probably an intel atom type processor, or possibly  an ARM cortex type
processor if I was feeling really ambitious.
Now I've written this I expect the whole thing will now die in the very
near future :-(.
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Mark Preston
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