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Freedom Kira:
--- Quote from: sapsa on June 14, 2011, 03:34:03 PM ---Freedom Kira, i know that atoms have a lot of credit :) I really don't need my NAS to play 720p thought - the problem with them is there is alot of atoms with 2 SATAs less with 4 SATAs and almost none with more. Vuze ain't lightweight. And there was a news some time ago about releasing new ATOMs CPUs in near future - would need to look into it
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Invest in a cheap PCI RAID card - by cheap I mean cheap. Mine cost $20. It's not for the performance (it's actually relatively slow), but just to connect more drives. My board has 2 SATA - I use one for the boot drive, and then I just connect the four drives via the RAID card.
No, Vuze isn't light at all, it's pretty much the exact opposite. It might even be heavier than running two clients at once, even when one of them is as heavy as KTorrent. Doesn't help that it's now 7 years old and has been running XP since the beginning with just basic maintenance (defrag, McAfee antivirus, and whatnot). Needless to say I'll be building a new computer soon after building the new server.
--- Quote from: sapsa on June 14, 2011, 03:34:03 PM ---Edit 3: I "like" how I see the price at NewEgg, then, at my story, then on newegg, then at my store and I see twice much at my store, It would be cheaper to buy it from newegg and ship it here, but they dont ship here...
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Was that an attempt at mimicking the Old Spice guy?
sapsa:
Freedom Kira, but buying CHEAP really CHEAP Raid Card may give problems with hdd's ?! Like I wrote before - I had problem with hdd's on my Raid controller.
and yes, that was failed attempt, sorry sir
Edit: I found something new for me, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816116097
How dose it work, what it need to work ?! Is that pluged in SAS slot, so SAS slot = 4 SATA's ?
bork:
--- Quote from: sapsa on June 14, 2011, 05:38:56 PM ---...
Edit: I found something new for me, http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816116097
How dose it work, what it need to work ?! Is that pluged in SAS slot, so SAS slot = 4 SATA's ?
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Plugs into something like this http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=3ware+9650se
halfelite:
--- Quote from: Lupin on June 14, 2011, 06:56:36 AM ---
--- Quote from: Freedom Kira on June 14, 2011, 06:36:54 AM ---You oughta give the Atom more credit. Mine's got 4 1.5TB drives in mdadm RAID 5, Ubuntu 10.04, been running my torrents almost constantly for the past nearly two years, and I can still watch 720p stuff directly from it from another computer without having to create a local copy, though I think 1080p stuff gets laggy. It's got Deluge and KTorrent running simultaneously, for completed file moving purposes. It's also available as an SFTP server. On top of that, it handles remote desktop via VNC pretty well.
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why should I? between atom and bobcat, bobcat provides more bang for the buck. torrenting is a very light load (unless you count hashing the files). the rest of the tasks you listed is just what I posted: make files available on the network. while it looks like the atom can handle the task, try increasing the number of simultaneous users. it will choke faster than bobcat does.
nettop parts pale in comparison to desktop or server parts. that's a given. but if you know what you want, nettop parts is just as good as desktop ones.
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Although I agree with you on the subject of atom vs amd-e There is one slight fault while the amd-e is better at video processing it actually takes a hit on disc access speed. Doing baseline rar unrar benchmarks the atom will come out on top. If you were building in htpc or something to watch videos and mild gaming I would say go with the AMD-E as thats what its good at. If you are building a file server I would lean more towards the atom. Now granted the benchmark difference is not huge its still a difference. I have actually been eyeing the ASUS E35M1-I running the AMD E-350 for my next pc build
Freedom Kira:
--- Quote from: sapsa on June 14, 2011, 05:38:56 PM ---Freedom Kira, but buying CHEAP really CHEAP Raid Card may give problems with hdd's ?! Like I wrote before - I had problem with hdd's on my Raid controller.
and yes, that was failed attempt, sorry sir
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I think you might have just gotten unlucky, or I just got lucky.
In any case, though, I got the card in a local store, and it's difficult to say what brand/model it is. So I probably can't point you at the one I got anyway.
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