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building a small file and application server

skyking

skyking

Lifer
I purchased a commell LE-565 mini ITX board used, and have been working on a case and power supply for it.
linkage.
I have it up and running now
I put two 40MM fans in the case for cooling the drives and board. one will do it so I have redundancy.
I went with (2) WD 1 TB green drives in a RAID1.
It is running at 28 watts on the Kill-a-watt while backing up a remote server with dirvish and rsync, this is about as loaded as it will get. It tops out at 52 watts on bootup with those green drives. This is better than I expected for (2) 3.5 drives
the load is at .11, so I plan on downclocking this thing from 1Ghz to 400Mhz. It drops a couple of watts when I do that, and a couple of degrees temp.
 
SilentPCReview just reviewed a pair of 500 GB laptop drives, you might look at that. Around $100 each is fairly reasonable, though I paid less than that for my 1 TB Spinpoint 5400RPM 3.5" drives.
 
Thanks Dave. I was looking at some 7200RPM seagate 320 GB for around $80 at zipzoomfly. I could go 3.5 drives for less $$ per GB, but I have no way of staggering the spinup. I could get a bigger power supply I suppose, but that board supports a max of 5 amps at 12 volts on its molex out connector.. I looked at the pico PSU, but I have no 20 pin connector and I'd have to jumper it on.
 
Got it up and running with a different 4.5 amp brick and two old seagate 250s in RAID1 with debian.
With xfce running and browsing the web, it pulls between .27 and .28 amps @120 volts for 33 watts total🙂
 
I have it up and running now🙂
I put two 40MM fans in the case for cooling the drives and board. one will do it so I have redundancy.
I went with (2) WD 1 TB green drives in a RAID1.
It is running at 28 watts on the Kill-a-watt while backing up a remote server with dirvish and rsync, this is about as loaded as it will get. It tops out at 52 watts on bootup with those green drives. This is better than I expected for (2) 3.5 drives😀
the load is at .11, so I plan on downclocking this thing from 1Ghz to 400Mhz. It drops a couple of watts when I do that, and a couple of degrees temp.
 
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