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OMFG the ultimate lower power server!!! CuBox

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it has gigabit .. just locate it anywhere .. .or more than likely, you can plug in a wifi usb dongle.  I mean heck look at the size of that thing .. .chances are you couldn't fit the chip+antenna in it and if you did reception would be horrible.  Though it would look cool with a single external antenna sticking up .. .like twice as high as the box is square hahaha

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It's neat, but I don't see it being that useful for unRAID.

 

People who build unRAID servers usually want maximum drive storage.

 

Where I see this as very useful is a local dhcp/PXEBOOT server/nameserver/media server,player/thin client.

 

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niche to be sure .. .but for anyone looking for a REALLY small 5-drive array this thing might be king.  I mean talk about portable and low power draw. 

 

I admit, most of my excitement is about the CuBox itself, such as a really low power HTPC (it can run XBMC).  Then i think about what to feed it and I imagine ANOTHER CuBox, sticky taped to the inside of a HDD encloser, acting as the massive parity protected store.

 

As it is, based on a few forum posts, it should be able to work with a port multipler to give access to up to 5 drives, but they won't be protected so that got me thinking .... :)

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if you look up the Marvel SoC it has a dedicated video decoder engine and dedicated gpu seperate from the ARM cpu (actually a Sheeva core interestingly). 

 

For an unraid kit, the real performance limit would liklely be having the entire array on a port replicator, but really only for parity checks and likely a slight writing hit.  But hey, for those of us wanting more, we have our full blown setups.

 

And of course it would will likely need a recompiled unraid to work with an ARM cpu since I doubt those drivers are left in there. But kernal 2.6 already has what is needed at least. 

 

Technically the system has the capacity for pcie and two esata but the CuBox guys didn't do it.  How cool would it be to get them to add that in a later design specifically for NAS applications :-O

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That is pretty impressive.

 

I'd say though the temperature rise of the box would worry me a bit.  I'll wait until gen 2 comes out and they have a heat sink solution using the case.  If it's 37C on the side, some of the components inside are quite a bit hotter.

 

(Although it probably was running for a while before they recorded the video - because I'm a bit surprised 2.5W of power would generate those temperatures)

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That is pretty impressive.

 

I'd say though the temperature rise of the box would worry me a bit.  I'll wait until gen 2 comes out and they have a heat sink solution using the case.  If it's 37C on the side, some of the components inside are quite a bit hotter.

 

(Although it probably was running for a while before they recorded the video - because I'm a bit surprised 2.5W of power would generate those temperatures)

 

meh I'm not worried http://www.solid-run.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2

 

Besides, you can get as hot as the sun with 2.5w and enough insulation :o hehe  Really the only thing they likely need to do is ventilate the case ... and I can surely to that with a drill if I'm really worried ;-)

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What exactly are these little boxes used for? I was never into XMBC since I've always used a media player. Is XMBC something to consider?

 

 

XBMC is a great free media center. A low cost HTPC with a smallish SSD and it will feel like the best media player you ever had!

 

I'ev had so many media players through the years. I've finally found the one I've been looking for!

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What exactly are these little boxes used for? I was never into XMBC since I've always used a media player. Is XMBC something to consider?

 

 

XBMC is a great free media center. A low cost HTPC with a smallish SSD and it will feel like the best media player you ever had!

 

I'ev had so many media players through the years. I've finally found the one I've been looking for!

 

You should also check out Openelec which is a version of XBMC designed to run from flash/SD card/small SSD that gives a very appliance like feel. I run it on a small Atom/Ion nettop and its great.

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What exactly are these little boxes used for? I was never into XMBC since I've always used a media player. Is XMBC something to consider?

 

 

XBMC is a great free media center. A low cost HTPC with a smallish SSD and it will feel like the best media player you ever had!

 

I'ev had so many media players through the years. I've finally found the one I've been looking for!

 

You should also check out Openelec which is a version of XBMC designed to run from flash/SD card/small SSD that gives a very appliance like feel. I run it on a small Atom/Ion nettop and its great.

 

That's cool. What I did was download the XBMC live! CD, Install it on the SSD.

Then use some of the debian tools apt-get to install other linuxisms.  Samba, mp3fs, transmission, etc, etc.

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XBMC is great if you dont want to do the client sever setup. I have two friend  that have Zotac Zbox netops with a 2gb external drive attached, XBMC with Icefilms, Sabnzbd,Sickbeard and Couchpotato. Runs great on Ubuntu.

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