hardware for home use large storage

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 05:21:32PM +1100, Andrew Snow wrote:
> http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPA.cfm?typ=H
> 
> Supermicro just released a new Mini-ITX fanless Atom server board
> with 6xSATA ports (based on Intel ICH9) and a PCIe 16x slot.  It
> takes up to 4GB of RAM, and there's even a version with KVM-over-LAN
> for headless operation and remote management.

Neat hardware.  But with regards to the KVM-over-LAN stuff: it's IPMI,
and Supermicro has a very, *very* long history of having shoddy IPMI
support.  I've been told the latter by too many different individuals in
the industry (some co-workers, some work at Yahoo, some at Rackable,
etc.) for me to rely on it.  If you *have* to go this route, make sure
you get the IPMI module which has its own dedicated LAN port on the
module and ***does not*** piggyback on top of an existing LAN port on
the mainboard.

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