W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > As to cases, our experience is, unless you have good air-conditioning or have > a means to nicely enclose your machine (like the BlackBox :-) ), get a box > as big as your space would allow. We had enough bad experiences with mini > cases, especially those Shuttle-type boxes. > Unfortunately I must agree.
I've two Shuttle servers and I really, really love them. They're small, beautiful (at least mine, a SN85G4 <http://global.shuttle.com/Product/Barebone/SN85G4%20V3.asp>) and pretty silent. The one in my study is a real desktop in a sense that it sits "on top of my desk" :) and the other one is the PVR in my basement. All is fine and humming silently along. But when the summer nights start to get warmer, like it happened here in the last few weeks, in my case :-) the CPU is still OK, but the on-board NIC starts to "break up". Kind of doing a ping and 50% + of the packages fails. Try to do an ftp with that. :-) I still adhere to 'small is beautiful', but it gives indeed some problems. Luckily, sometimes solutions come from unexpected angles. In my case I got a silent desktop through my new "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" (http://blogs.sun.com/wwwillem/entry/silence_and_pavlov). Willem _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
