June 20, 2009 at 01:01Home server. Part One - Component Selection
Somehow I had a need to update my home server, which is a computer with a Pentium 400Mhz processor and 384Mb of memory. The main tasks that I set for myself were to make it even quieter, smaller in size and faster.
First, I picked up the accessories.
You can reduce the size only using small components :) so I settled on the mini-ITX form factor . For starters, the case I was looking for was selected in the Inwin range of cases. Unfortunately, they have a very small selection of mini-ITX cases, but what was right for me, my choice fell on the bm639 . The built-in power supply unit produces 120W with such a lot of fun, but for my tasks this is more than enough.
According to my conditions, all the insides of the server should be quiet and, preferably, with reduced power consumption. So, as a processor, I decided to take Atom, which was more than suitable in all respects, and since I wanted to get there faster, I was looking for Atom 330 . From motherboards with such a processor, I found applicants from Intel, Gigabyte and a couple of non-names. I dropped the challenger from Gigabyte, because I had unpleasant glitches with their components several times, so I decided to take a motherboard from Intel, although I didn’t work with Intel mothers. Of the two Intel boards, I chose the no-frills Intel Desktop Board D945GCLF2D .
There is nothing special to say about memory, I took to the maximum how much the motherboard supported - 2Gb.
It remains to deal with the screw. I looked through hard drives from all major manufacturers. WD won here with his Green Power series. They have reduced power consumption and 5400 spindle rotation speed, which ensures quieter operation. At first I wanted to take a 500Gb screw, but in terms of acoustic parameters the WD10EVDS terrabytnik looked better , which I eventually took.
I wrote all this while downloading Windows 7 64-bit for installation on a new system. I’ll put it only for tests, in the end, all the same, Fedora 11 will be based on the server :)
In the second part of the article I will post a photo report on the assembly.
The second part is Assembly.
First, I picked up the accessories.
You can reduce the size only using small components :) so I settled on the mini-ITX form factor . For starters, the case I was looking for was selected in the Inwin range of cases. Unfortunately, they have a very small selection of mini-ITX cases, but what was right for me, my choice fell on the bm639 . The built-in power supply unit produces 120W with such a lot of fun, but for my tasks this is more than enough.
According to my conditions, all the insides of the server should be quiet and, preferably, with reduced power consumption. So, as a processor, I decided to take Atom, which was more than suitable in all respects, and since I wanted to get there faster, I was looking for Atom 330 . From motherboards with such a processor, I found applicants from Intel, Gigabyte and a couple of non-names. I dropped the challenger from Gigabyte, because I had unpleasant glitches with their components several times, so I decided to take a motherboard from Intel, although I didn’t work with Intel mothers. Of the two Intel boards, I chose the no-frills Intel Desktop Board D945GCLF2D .
There is nothing special to say about memory, I took to the maximum how much the motherboard supported - 2Gb.
It remains to deal with the screw. I looked through hard drives from all major manufacturers. WD won here with his Green Power series. They have reduced power consumption and 5400 spindle rotation speed, which ensures quieter operation. At first I wanted to take a 500Gb screw, but in terms of acoustic parameters the WD10EVDS terrabytnik looked better , which I eventually took.
I wrote all this while downloading Windows 7 64-bit for installation on a new system. I’ll put it only for tests, in the end, all the same, Fedora 11 will be based on the server :)
In the second part of the article I will post a photo report on the assembly.
The second part is Assembly.