I'm obviously new to the forums - hello scott :D
I've fallen in love with the ease of use of many Astaro 120s and 220s that we use at my workplace, and am looking forward to building a low profile home PC to use with the free home use license. I have a few questions to start off, and my chosen hardware follows them.
In no particular order:
1) How much hard drive space is needed or recommended for logging?
2) How much ram does the OS support?
3) Does it have drivers for the newer motherboard chipsets?
4) Would there be any benefit to a SATA 2 vs SATA 3 SSD hard drive?
5) Does it utilize multicore processors to the fullest extent?
6) Would there be a benefit to using an i7 over a Core i5 (where the i7 supports hyperthreading for example)
7) Does it have any sort of temperature sensing support? if i supply the chasis with an adjustable speed fan, does the OS utilize this, or at the very least, does it let the BIOS handle this and not override the functionality of it?
8) Will the built in drivers support advanced features of any of the below hardware (such as VLANs for example, on the nics)?
9) Is there any way to update the drivers with a linux version from the following hardware manufacturers, if needed (and applicable)?
Intel EXPI9400PTBLK 10/ 100/ 1000Mbps PCI-Express Gigabit Copper Connection for Servers - OEM
Antec ISK 310-150 Black / Silver 0.8mm cold rolled steel Mini-ITX Desktop Computer Case 150W Power Supply
Intel BOXDQ77KB LGA 1155 Intel Q77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Mini ITX Intel Motherboard
Athena Power AP-MFATX40 400W Mini ITX 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC Power Supply
Intel Core i7-3770S Ivy Bridge 3.1GHz (3.9GHz Turbo) LGA 1155 65W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 4000 BX80637I73770S
-OR-
Intel Core i5-3450S Ivy Bridge 2.8GHz (3.5GHz Turbo) LGA 1155 65W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 2500 BX80637I53450S
CORSAIR 8GB (2 x 4GB) 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM DDR3 1333 Laptop Memory Model CMSO8GX3M2A1333C9
Thanks to all.
I've fallen in love with the ease of use of many Astaro 120s and 220s that we use at my workplace, and am looking forward to building a low profile home PC to use with the free home use license. I have a few questions to start off, and my chosen hardware follows them.
In no particular order:
1) How much hard drive space is needed or recommended for logging?
2) How much ram does the OS support?
3) Does it have drivers for the newer motherboard chipsets?
4) Would there be any benefit to a SATA 2 vs SATA 3 SSD hard drive?
5) Does it utilize multicore processors to the fullest extent?
6) Would there be a benefit to using an i7 over a Core i5 (where the i7 supports hyperthreading for example)
7) Does it have any sort of temperature sensing support? if i supply the chasis with an adjustable speed fan, does the OS utilize this, or at the very least, does it let the BIOS handle this and not override the functionality of it?
8) Will the built in drivers support advanced features of any of the below hardware (such as VLANs for example, on the nics)?
9) Is there any way to update the drivers with a linux version from the following hardware manufacturers, if needed (and applicable)?
Intel EXPI9400PTBLK 10/ 100/ 1000Mbps PCI-Express Gigabit Copper Connection for Servers - OEM
Antec ISK 310-150 Black / Silver 0.8mm cold rolled steel Mini-ITX Desktop Computer Case 150W Power Supply
Intel BOXDQ77KB LGA 1155 Intel Q77 HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 Mini ITX Intel Motherboard
Athena Power AP-MFATX40 400W Mini ITX 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC Power Supply
Intel Core i7-3770S Ivy Bridge 3.1GHz (3.9GHz Turbo) LGA 1155 65W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 4000 BX80637I73770S
-OR-
Intel Core i5-3450S Ivy Bridge 2.8GHz (3.5GHz Turbo) LGA 1155 65W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 2500 BX80637I53450S
CORSAIR 8GB (2 x 4GB) 204-Pin DDR3 SO-DIMM DDR3 1333 Laptop Memory Model CMSO8GX3M2A1333C9
Thanks to all.