reecommendations for an 'appliance" platform ?

[Mike Andrews]

On Sat, 13 Jun 2009, Aragon Gouveia wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Pete French wrote:
>>>   I'm not 100% sure, but fairly sure that you'll have a hard time
>>> finding something that combines the low-power standalone type spec with
>>> a 64-bit capable processor.  Once you get the higher-end processor,
>> 
>> That was my experiense when shopping around yes - annoying as I
>> don't need anything particularly low power (it ain't going to
>> be my leccy bill :-).
>
> The Atom 230 and 330 are supposed to be 64-bit capable:
>
> http://ark.intel.com/Compare.aspx?ids=36331,35635,35641,
>
> but I have not personally tested either with an AMD64 FreeBSD install.

I have a Supermicro 5015A-H on the way, which is a 1U rackmount Atom 330 
box, and am planning to run 7.2-STABLE amd64 on it.  We'll see how it 
goes.  No flash card slots, so you'd need adapters -- I was just going to 
use a pair of leftover 2.5" disks I had on the shelf.