New Home Server - Will it Run SC7?

[DrNic]

Hi all,
before laying my cash on the line, just wanted to glean the learned opinon of the Slimdevices Fora!
I am building a new home server - there are some very specific things it *must* be:
1) Rack mountable
2) Fanless - and I mean completely not even a PSU fan!
3) Running Linux
4) Not a NAS device - I use it for other stuff too (eg home automation/web server)

So I have been looking around and like the idea of the self build yet again - those "Hush" PC's can fit the bill, but the cost is astronomical!
I have found this little Mini-ITX board: http://www.icp-epia.co.uk/index.php?...d&productId=88

it uses this processor: 1.2GHz Fanless VIA C7 nanoBGA2 Processor

I will load it up with the max (1gig) of RAM.
Will SC7 laugh at the spec??
All thoughts welcome!

Thanks,
Nic

[smc2911]

I think you'll be laughing: it should run fine. You might find that the initial scanning of your music library will be slower than on on a higher spec machine, but once that's done I think you'll be good to go.

[mherger]

> it uses this processor: 1.2GHz Fanless VIA C7 nanoBGA2 Processor

I'm using a 1GHz Version of the C3. It's running SC7 very fine.

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Michael

[Patrick Dixon]

If you want it really quiet, you'll probably need to go for 2.5" HDs too - I've found the 3.5" ones are generally too noisy in a fanless system.

[DrNic]

Thanks guys!
Also cheers for the warning on the 3.5" drives Patrick, I have a few "spare" 3.5" drives so will try those first - if no joy then may have to try your suggestion...

TC

Nic

[dem]

I have found this little Mini-ITX board: http://www.icp-epia.co.uk/index.php?...d&productId=88

it uses this processor: 1.2GHz Fanless VIA C7 nanoBGA2 Processor

I will load it up with the max (1gig) of RAM.
Will SC7 laugh at the spec??

I'm using that exact board with 1 GB RAM to run SC7, and it performs adequately. I also use it as a NAS with a hardware RAID controller.

While testing early releases of SC7 I left SS6 alone on the VIA and ran SC7 on a Mac mini with a 2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo. As you would expect it was much much faster, even accessing the music files on the VIA NAS over the network.

I've since upgraded the VIA box to SC7 but I do miss the speed of the mini.

[DrNic]

I'm using that exact board with 1 GB RAM to run SC7, and it performs adequately. I also use it as a NAS with a hardware RAID controller.

While testing early releases of SC7 I left SS6 alone on the VIA and ran SC7 on a Mac mini with a 2.0 GHz Core 2 Duo. As you would expect it was much much faster, even accessing the music files on the VIA NAS over the network.

I've since upgraded the VIA box to SC7 but I do miss the speed of the mini.

Interesting, Dave. Thanks!

Does this lack of speed relate to using the web browser or the SB3 interface itself? I'm not too bothered about the web interface as this is something I rarely use.

Nic

[dem]

Does this lack of speed relate to using the web browser or the SB3 interface itself? I'm not too bothered about the web interface as this is something I rarely use.

Yes, that's where I notice it most. Rescans take maybe 4 times longer, too.

[DrNic]

Yes, that's where I notice it most. Rescans take maybe 4 times longer, too.

May I ask one last thing Dave?
You running Winblows or Linux on the server?

Thanks again

Nic

[dem]

May I ask one last thing Dave?
You running Winblows or Linux on the server?

Linux, Fedora Core 5.