smallest atom 330 board and case?

sigelang · #1 11-06-2009, 10:44 PM

Hi, I am interested in buying/building a couple of NAS'es based on 64 bit OS. I l already have those 19V/3A power supply (Sony laptop power supply) and 2.5 HDD's My wife don't want to have big stuff on my table so I am thinking of the smallest form factor available. It will run 24x7 so I want it small like the DS209 on the right of this screen.

I am thinking of running either Debian/Centos (to learn Linux )or even run Windows 7 x64(client/RDP to server is very fast), if linux is very complicated.

Thanks and I hope this is the right place for the questions on stuff like this.

Slang

sigelang · #2 11-06-2009, 11:14 PM

I want to build something like this -" http://www.provantage.com/iei-techno...o~7IEIT00U.htm " but can still be reduced further using 1.8" or 2.5" drives. Remove the 2nd drive slot since data is not critical.

sigelang · #3 11-07-2009, 09:22 PM

I just hope the cheaper sheeva plug and tonido's came with esata like the $200 CTERA. The only drawback is can't ran MS's OS if I give up on linux.

So I hope manufacturer will come up with Intel Atom Z or N platform.

A tiny x86 based device. (Z540/550 or Atom 230/330).

This is thin!

http://www.bcmcom.com/img/img_produc...Slim_PC_02.jpg