[geeks] anyone know about this? 72-core, 48GB computer?

[Lionel Peterson]

What about the Aspire WHS box? $350, 2 gig RAM, 4 hot-swap drive bays,  
I TB SATA drive included. It runs an Atom CPU (single core 230, IIRC)...

Lionel

On Oct 5, 2009, at 11:05 AM, Joshua Boyd <jdboyd at jdboyd.net> wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 03, 2009 at 10:18:06AM -0400, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> Are they available at retail stores yet? I recall looking a couple  
>> weeks
>> ago and couldn't find them for sale...
>
> They seem to be available from NewEgg for awhile.  Certainly it took
> some time from when people said they were shipping until I could
> actually find them from a reputable US dealer though.  See:
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813500030
>
>> A hundred dollar MB with room for 4 Gigs of dual-channel memory, two
>> SATA ports, and an IDE port (or three SATA ports) would make a nice
>> network appliance box. An expansion slot that can take a dual port
>> gigabit NIC (PCI Express X1 or better, PCI-X would work, but would be
>> unlikely) would make it an excellent network appliance box, IMHO.
>
> They aren't quite $100 though.  More like $170.
> 4 gigs of RAM.  There is a mini-PCIe slot, but that is probably  
> useless
> for your purposes.
> 3x SATA, 1x eSATA.
>
> There is supposed to be a new version with a 16x PCIe slot, but I
> wouldn't be surprised if it can't be found retail yet, and it will
> probably be closer still to $200.
>
>> By appliance I'm thinking Untangle, squid caching proxy, etc.
>
> I really want a small affordable ZFS appliance, preferably in a rack
> mount case.  I would think that a Atom board that I could slap into a
> case I already have would be perfect.
>
>> Intel has mini-ITX MBs that take socket 775 CPUs and 4 Gigs and have
>> nice expansion options, but they are $150 plus CPU, and consume  
>> 'normal
>> levels' of power...
>
> Maybe I am just chicken, but I don't really want to install the CPU
> myself.  I suppose it might not be as bad as it was in the P4 days
> though.
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