Solid State Workstation

[Netopia]

Hey Gents,

I need to put together a SFF box that is going to go into a VERY dirty manufacturing area. What are your opinions on the best platform (mobo/cpu) for this? I'm trying to make ZERO moving parts, including no fan of any sort... along with using an SSD.

Thoughts?

Thanks,

Joe

 

[miahallen]

What kind of power does it need....what do you plan to use it for?

 

[Netopia]

Not much power at all. Needs to run WinXP with reasonable speed. If the hardware isn't supported by XP, then I suppose it has to run Win7 reasonably.

It will be used almost 100% of the time to run a program that allows workers to mix colors together to get exact shades of ink, and to check email. That's it.

Joe

 

[StarTech]

The key question you should ask is what is the cost associated with equipment fault. In other words, what happens if it quits working or fails intermittently. In some situations this figure can be very high. If it really matters, look for proven industrial enclosure solution, not a home made.

 

[JLukas]

A number of the dual core Atom CPU+motherboard combos are fanless. Some of them like the Zotac board include an onboard connector for a power brick (fanless), instead of requiring a regular PSU.

 

[Zap]

If the performance of an Atom is enough, then a fanless Atom or AMD Zacate would be great with a small SSD. Alternately as StarTech said go industrial. Heck, that's the whole purpose!