[ale] small hardware platforms

[Greg Freemyer]

Per http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=312&tag=nl.e539 the laptop size
drives should hit 500GB soon, so not so limited.

And the smaller drives produce less heat so they may not need as much
cooling as the 3 1/2" drives.  I will say we often run drives sitting
on our bendh with no fans.  For smaller drives 100GB or less it is
fine.  For bigger drives, they can get pretty hot.  I have not kept
any real records, so this may have changed over time.

We actually built some little external racks from plexiglass with
built in fans.  They do a greate job of keeping things cool.

Greg

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:59 AM, David Hamm <ale at spinnerdog.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  For a while now I've been producting a product using Kuro Boxes.  Kuro Boxes
>  can bee seen here http://www.revogear.com and http://www.kurobox.com.  They
>  have either a 266mghz Motorola Power PC or a 400mghz ARM processor and use a
>  standard IDE or SATA HD with 128 megs of ram.
>
>  Does anyone know of a similar platform?  There are some fanless PCs out there
>  but they use a laptop HD which limits the disk size and I'm concerned the
>  heat will cause early disk failure.
>
>  Thanks.
>
>
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