[wellylug] Mobile Multimedia Machine (MMM!)

[Wood Brent]

--- Francois Prowse <fp at prowse.co.nz> wrote:

> Well a good 1-2U system would be good, if you could find rack mount cases 
> for relistic prices :( 

Given the "Mobile" in the subject line, I'm surprised that rack-mount is an
option.

The cheapest I'm aware of is this unit, about $1400+GST plus drives/cpu/ram.
Not really suitable for multimedia though. Things like good sound & graphics
are not part of a typical 1U server.


1U P4 Rackmount Barebone Server 
*1x Easy Swap bay 
*2x ATA133 Raid 0,1 Hot swap bays 
*1x Slim Floppy 
*1x Slim 24x CDROM 
*Intel 845E Chipset 
*533FSB 
*2xDDR Angle Slot (max.2GB) 
*1xPCI 32bit/33MHz 
*ATi Rage XL 8MB graphics on board 
*Promise PDC20276 Dual ATA133 Raid 
*Dual Intel 82550PM Lan 
*Wake on LAN 
*2xUSB



Also see Procase, who sell direct to the public & have a good range of all
sorts of PC cases, http://www.procase.co.nz/

note they they have flexible PCI/AGP riser adaptors so that standard boards can
be fitted & have some slots available. I'd be surprised if you'll get 8xAGP
working properly with such a beast though. It can be a good way to build your
own dual cpu server at a good price though. 


The other one I'll toss in here is the MSI mega box, see

http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/slim_pc/slm/pro_slm_detail.php?UID=431

for details. It pretty much fits what Jamie was talking about, but has some
(IMHO) design flaws, & I think some better designed/engineered solutions are
out there.




I think I'd be more comfortable moving this discussion to the wlug forums
rather than keeping it here, as I can see hardware options & prices being
tossed around/discussed, which may still be of interest to others, but this
isn't the place.



Cheers

    Brent