Shuttle XPC

[Influencer]

Anyone heard of running unraid on a shuttle xpc? I'm interested in if it would work. Someone locally is selling their shuttle for $35, add a few harddrives and it should make a fairly decent offsite backup. Low footprint and very small. I know a lot of people have had issues with the shuttles so not sure if it'd be worth it, but this person says it runs pretty good, I can only imagine it does considering how long they've had it.

[BRiT]

It depends on which Shuttle XPC it is (ie: what chipset does it use for the motherboard).

[Influencer]

Alright, here it is:

CHIPSET VIA KM400+VT8237

ETHERNET Realtek 8100B, 10/100 LAN

 

Only downside I've seen is it has no support for SATAII, and apparently doesn't recognize sataII harddrives.

[PeterB]

Alright, here it is:

CHIPSET VIA KM400+VT8237

ETHERNET Realtek 8100B, 10/100 LAN

 

Only downside I've seen is it has no support for SATAII, and apparently doesn't recognize sataII harddrives.

 

You really need to identify which model it is.

 

I have a shuttle X200B, but it's based on Intel chipset, on which I could try booting unRAID.  However, there is only space for a single internal drive - I'm not even sure that removing the optical drive would help, because it is a slim drive (laptop style).

 

The other problem would be that there are only 2 SATA ports, and no standard expansion sockets.  I guess that you could add usb external drives.

 

The other limitation, of course, is the 100Mb network interface.

[Johnm]

I find that many of the shuttles, while they can fit 2-3 hard dives and are small form factor, have poor cooling for heavy drive use and tend to cook drives when used in a server type application.