Home server Part one - the choice of components
I somehow had the 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 and faster.
First, I picked up the components.
Reduce the size can only be using small components :) so I stopped at the mini-ITX form factor. To begin with, 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 quite suitable for me, my choice fell on the bm639 . The power supply unit built into the chassis produces 120W with this one so you don’t clear up, but this is more than enough for my tasks.
According to my conditions, all the insides of the server should be quiet and, preferably, with low power consumption. So, as a processor, I decided to take the Atom, which is more than suitable in all respects, and since I wanted to quickly, I was looking for Atom 330 . From motherboards with such a processor, I found candidates from Intel, Gigabyte and a couple of noname. I dropped the contender from Gigabyte, as I had several unpleasant glitches with their components, so I decided to take a fee from Intel, although I didn’t work with Intel mothers either. Of the two Intel boards, I chose the no-frills model of the Intel Desktop Board D945GCLF2D .
There’s nothing much to say about memory, I took as much as possible on the motherboard - 2Gb.
It remains to deal with the screw. I looked at hard drives from all major manufacturers. Here he won WD 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 terabyte looked better, which I eventually took.
I wrote all this while Windows 7 64-bit was being downloaded for installation on a new system. I will put only for tests, in the end, all the same, Fedora 11 will settle on a server :)
In the second part of the article I will post a photo report on the assembly.
The second part is the Build.
First, I picked up the components.
Reduce the size can only be using small components :) so I stopped at the mini-ITX form factor. To begin with, 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 quite suitable for me, my choice fell on the bm639 . The power supply unit built into the chassis produces 120W with this one so you don’t clear up, but this is more than enough for my tasks.
According to my conditions, all the insides of the server should be quiet and, preferably, with low power consumption. So, as a processor, I decided to take the Atom, which is more than suitable in all respects, and since I wanted to quickly, I was looking for Atom 330 . From motherboards with such a processor, I found candidates from Intel, Gigabyte and a couple of noname. I dropped the contender from Gigabyte, as I had several unpleasant glitches with their components, so I decided to take a fee from Intel, although I didn’t work with Intel mothers either. Of the two Intel boards, I chose the no-frills model of the Intel Desktop Board D945GCLF2D .
There’s nothing much to say about memory, I took as much as possible on the motherboard - 2Gb.
It remains to deal with the screw. I looked at hard drives from all major manufacturers. Here he won WD 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 terabyte looked better, which I eventually took.
I wrote all this while Windows 7 64-bit was being downloaded for installation on a new system. I will put only for tests, in the end, all the same, Fedora 11 will settle on a server :)
In the second part of the article I will post a photo report on the assembly.
The second part is the Build.
')
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/62483/
All Articles