Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:08:37 -0400 From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Benjamin Keating <motionsiren@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD & mini-ITX Message-ID: <942A6D6A-2A41-400B-AA8E-EFF6B99DB102@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <781e2bc0050622144315cf3b25@mail.gmail.com> References: <781e2bc0050622144315cf3b25@mail.gmail.com>
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On Jun 22, 2005, at 5:43 PM, Benjamin Keating wrote: > I've been eyeing up these mini-ITX boards - would like to make a quite > little file server. Does anyone here run a mini-ITX board (what > model)? Does it work out of the box? Anything not supported? I'd go > for one of VIA's as AMD's and others are still a little new and > pricey. Recommend a shop to purchase from (in the US)? I've got a VIA EPIA-M1000, a 1GHz VIA "CentaurHauls" C3 and 512MB of RAM. It mostly worked out-of-the-box (in textmode only, I haven't really tried getting X11 to work with the integrated video). Firewire and USB ports worked well, the vr0 (VIA Rhine II?) NIC worked OK but seemed to get a little flakey under high load and would drop traffic. I'm not unhappy with the hardware, but it's reliability under load is questionable compared to a Soekris 4511 or a generic Dell/Compaq/HP/ whatever box. I'd probably get a Mac Mini instead if I had to redo the choice today. -- -Chuck
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