Tiny Shuttle Computer case

[Karl F. Larsen]

M. Milanuk wrote:
> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> 
>>> What all are you shoe-horning in there?
>>>
>>> I've thought about getting one of those to put together as a small 
>>> gateway/firewall machine... my Buffalo Air Station does a pretty good 
>>> job as is, but the geek in me wants a dedicated machine that gives me a 
>>> little more control ;)
> 
>> 	Hi the things are a cpu, 2 RAM chips, a DVD/cd-rom drive, one 
>> SATA and one IDE hard drive. It will all fit but boy that's 
>> all you can put in!
>>
> 
> So... are you running it as a light desktop, or as a mini-server, a 
> firewall or what?
> 
> I see from the pictures on newegg.com that it has one ethernet port 
> already built-in... and it looks like here should two slots for a 
> PCI/PCI-Express card, so another NIC could go there... I'm thinking in 
> terms of what all I'd need to turn it into a smokin' little 
> firewall/gateway/proxy.  The specs mention RAID 0/1 for the SATA 
> controller.  Any idea if thats 'real' hardware raid or just fake 
> (glorified soft) raid?
> 
> 

	The one page manual does not mention raid. I will look on the 
bios and see if it talks hardware raid.

	Need to know there is space for just two normal size hard 
drives either IDE or SATA. It has two USB devices with 8 ports.

	It has one PCI and one PCI-Express card slots.

	To slow down your smokin' little computer is the CPU cooler 
method. It doesn't allow a normal CPU cooler to be mounted. It 
has a strange plate you tighten down on the cpu with some heat 
transfer paste and the plate has 3 tubes that go to a heat 
exchanger that is cooled by the air coming out of the 
computer. A note on the cpu plug said not to use a cpu with 
more than 150 watts of waste heat. I think your super cpu 
might get too hot.

	But for a computer that is for a 78 year old wife, who likes 
to play Solitare and keep books on the family fortune it is a 
cool system.


73 Karl


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