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      kejianshi
      last edited by

      You have a computer the size of a house with real sata interfaces…
      For god sake, don't run nano.
      Run a normal full install - You will be glad you did.

      Unless being pen pals with the nano support crew is how you want to spend your weekends at every update?

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        P3R
        last edited by

        @kejianshi:

        Unless being pen pals with the nano support crew is how you want to spend your weekends at every update?

        I'm nowhere near being as experienced as you but I run two nanos and one full install in production since the initial 2.1 release. I have (so far) experienced no upgrade problems with any of them.

        I hope not but maybe it's just because I'm a very lucky guy my nanos work well…

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          Escorpiom
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          AMD for home use may be OK.
          For anything else, AMD is not getting my money. They may have improved over time, but I've had some real bad issues with AMD platforms in the past.

          Cheers.

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            kejianshi
            last edited by

            Different approach then…

            Why do you dislike a full install for your application?

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
              last edited by

              @kejianshi:

              Unless being pen pals with the nano support crew is how you want to spend your weekends at every update?

              ;D Ha!
              Yes, the last two updates suffered an unfortunate error that affected some hardware. That was an exception though and the built in backup in Nano made it easy to recover (as long as you had local access to the box!).

              Steve

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                messerchmidt
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                I have an old 60gb vertex2 that I can use.

                I will have local access, box will be in the basement by the cable modem

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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                  last edited by

                  I have a couple of those and they haven't given my any trouble (not running under pfSense though). However they do not have a good reputation for reliability.

                  Steve

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                    kejianshi
                    last edited by

                    I've been interested to give one of these a try for a while.

                    http://www.ebay.com/itm/Kingspec-Industrial-Disk-on-Module-SATA-DOM-7Pins-16GB-SLC-1CH-for-POS-Machines-/161299486599?pt=US_Solid_State_Drives&hash=item258e32d787

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                      Escorpiom
                      last edited by

                      yes, afordable SLC at last.
                      Found a larger one, two channels:

                      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=unknow

                      I'll try one my SM2558.

                      Cheers.

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                        kejianshi
                        last edited by

                        Yeah - I have an idea that those are not the fastest in the world but might be reliable.

                        Otherwise the people who sell them would have bad ratings already.  Ebay ratings don't usually lie.

                        I'm also a big fan of SLC because I've never had one fail - ever.

                        Please do PM me and post what you find about those DOMs.

                        I may want to try one in my next build.

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                          Escorpiom
                          last edited by

                          Will do, I just bought the 32GB 2-channel SLC.
                          It will take a while to get here, this is Colombia and it really is the arse of the world.
                          Anyway when it's running I'll post about it here.

                          I also found some cheap Kdata SLC SSD:

                          http://www.ebay.com/itm/Industrial-SLC-Chip-32GB-SSD-Drive-for-Laptop-PC-SATAII-Solid-State-Disk-32GB-/161395330944?pt=US_Solid_State_Drives&hash=item2593e94f80

                          But power consumption (6W) seems a little high, and the sustained r/w speeds are rather low (in fact not much better than conventional HD's).
                          Also, Kdata brand is totally unknown.
                          So I skipped that one.

                          As an alternative to SLC and MLC, eMLC SSD's would be worth trying. Didn't have time to research it yet.

                          Cheers.

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                            kejianshi
                            last edited by

                            Thats cool, thanks.  But why does the SLC kdata have trim?

                            I guess there is no reason TRIM and SLC can't be used together,  but none of mine have TRIM.

                            Yep - I will keep an eye out for that.

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                              messerchmidt
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                              I am going to go pickup parts next week. Using a single stick of 8gb ecc ddr3 with this cpu/build

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                                S-KGray
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                                Any updates on this build? Have a friend interested in trying out the Sempron 2650.

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