Hi, for personal use I run a backup server based on a Chenbro ES34069[1] Mini-ITX case (4 SATA hot-swap bays). Initially it sported a nice VIA EPIA SN18000 mainboard[2] (4x SATA, 1x PATA) whose PATA controller unfortunately broke -- and VIA no more manufactures Mini-ITX boards with more than 2 SATA ports. So I replaced it with a SuperMicro X7SPA-HF-D525[3] Intel Atom based mainboard (6x SATA). But despite having a dual-core Intel Atom on it, it seems less performant than the previous VIA C7 based board.
I now wonder if there are already ARM based server mainboards out there, which fit into the Mini-ITX form-factor and have at least 5, better 6 SATA-II or SATA-III ports. So far I found ARM-based Mini-ITX (or compatible) boards by VIA, Kontron, Habey, Cadia Networks, and Simtec (the latter from 2003 according to [4] and [5], but still sold according to [6]!) but none of the them has more than two SATA ports. Does the Debian ARM community know about the existence of such mainboards or can even recommend one? Should be able to run Debian, of course, preferably armhf. [1] http://www.chenbro.eu/corporatesite/products_detail.php?sku=78 [2] http://www.viaembedded.com/en/products/boards/550/1/EPIA_SN_(EOL).html [3] http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA-HF-D525.cfm [4] http://www.robots.net/article/995.html [5] http://www.mini-itx.com/2003/10/29/simtecs-arm9-based-mini-itx-board [6] http://www.simtec.co.uk/products/EB2410ITX/avail.html Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE `- | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131008012931.gj3...@sym.noone.org
