On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 02:02:29PM +0000, Venura Mendis wrote:
Ive built a NAS/media PC using Epia mini ITX. It cost me about £220 with 500GB hardisk +dvd rom and a nice case. The motherboard I got is definitely on the high end and if all you want to do is run Samba the cost can be brought down lots + hardives are abit cheaper now. My box runs at 21W on idle. If you use a flash card for the OS, power consumption will probably be lower. Have a look at http://linitx.com/
Useful, thank you very much, it looks like a good solution. I'd probably not run Samba as I'd mount the drive across the network using NFS and/or do backups using rdiff-backup (which works over an ssh connection). I guess I could probably get away without a CD/DVD drive too by installing across the network though I'm not quite sure how you get the system to boot initially without either a floppy or a CD.
Quite a decent company, though if you are picking up from there office in Needham market, check the stuff they give you. They gave me the wrong motherboard but there were no issues changing it.
They're local as well - excellent!
My box runs xubuntu, mythtv, samba (Does the network fileshare/backup stuff adequately for me) torrentflux for torrents and linpha for pictures. Its sort of a combination between NAS and media boxes that are out in the market currently.
I'd probably not run X at all, just ssh and maybe a web server.