Newbie, please comment on my (planned) setup.
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"Storage will be a SLC DOM that's still underway"
Which DOM? How big?
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We talked about that. You don't remember that?
It's the two channel SLC DOM 32GB, when it arrives I'll put PfSense on it.http://www.ebay.com/itm/Kingspec-Industrial-Disk-on-Module-SATA-DOM-7Pins-32GB-SLC-2CH-for-POS-Machines-/161279269555?talgo=origal&tfrom=151281943955&ttype=price&tpos=unknowSeller specifies that the module will last for 80 years, writing 10GB a day. It's impossible to verify that claim at the moment, but if this proves to be true, it's a hell of a deal.
No worries letting squid and logging do it's thing.Cheers.
Edit: First it says write endurance "8 years at 100GB/day", further down it says 80 years at 10GB/day.
Can't take this seriously, but let's wait and see. -
Yes - I do remember talking about it and thought it was you, but didn't see my comment in the thread so thought maybe I was confused. Good - I'm anxious to get feedback on the entire build, but especially that DOM (-:
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If you were testing the power consumption without any OS installed you will probably find it actually decreases. The bios setup usually doesn't (I've never seen it) have any power saving code or features enabled.
Steve
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I have a similar setup. Can you report your operational temperature? What case are you using?
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@stephenw10: You're right, I didn't think of that. Anyway it may be necessary to tweak the firmware settings a bit also once the OS is installed.
@Wolf666: Yes, when the SSD module comes in I'll test something more and will also take temperature readings.
Keep in mind that the board is mATX, I've got enough space. The case is a cheapo desktop mATX.
The SoC heatsink is only a bit warmer than ambient.Cheers.
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Ok, I've got it set up :-)
For Wolf666: Temperature is at 53 celsius. That's in a desktop mATX case, pico psu 90, no fan at all.
Ambient temp is a bit high also, this is a warm country.I had some difficulties setting it up, mainly because I'm a n00b. But not ashamed to elaborate on it.
My SSD SLC module still has not arrived from China, so I just went ahead and put in the Intel 2500 SSD.
First on the UTP cables. No idea if Intel LAN cards are more picky than other brands, but for the life of me I couldn't get them to negotiate at 1000baseT.
Had to change the cables for others, some cat6 cable here is from a very bad quality it seems.
After swapping two cables, the ports negotiated at 1000baseT full duplex.After that, I had quite some trouble setting up vlans.
It was not clear at the beginning that the LAN interface had to be removed after setting up the vlans. Found that comment elsewhere here on the forum.
In my stupidity, I used a /32 mask for the interface and could not get to the webGUI for some hours. Finally figured it out.Some trouble with Squid install, not relevant for this section however.
After testing, it is quite a bit faster than my old server. Considering I'm on 2.2 beta, it may even get better (Multi threading perhaps, quick assist).
Cheers.
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WOW - They didn't deliver your SSD… STILL!? Do you live in a remote jungle or are they just that bad at delivering?
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Remote jungle.
Any somewhat fancy tech has to be imported, but I can't do it directly, it would be way to expensive.
Merchandise has to be send to Miami, FL first.
There it will be consolidated and send to Colombia.We are paying approximately 30% more for any tech, because of this.
Cheers.
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I understand. Hope you get to test that soon. Glad your machine is working well.
