[olug] Atom systems on PCIE card

[Jason N]

the card for the Original Post is a PCIE card... so it should fit in any server that has a PCIE slot and the case it tall enough to accept it (i.e. 3. or 4 U tall)

now if you are looking at 1 or 2 U server, then you would need a riser card on this smaller server that allows you to lay this card on it's side inside the chassis.

As for the newly linked card, that appears to be totally proprietary, and would most likely requre a 4 U server and a special backplane board.


---- Jon Larsen <relayer at levania.org> wrote: 
When you say 'won't fit into the server' are you saying server rack or 
some proprietary slot inside an existing server? If it is a server rack.  
1U is the smallest you're going to get.

Why not consider Linode?  At $20 a month for the entry-level system 
(same as OLUG), that's pretty frugal and you don't have to worry about 
the hardware.


On Thu, 9 Jun 2011, aric at omahax.com wrote:

> Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 09:38:46 -0500
> From: aric at omahax.com
> Reply-To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
> Subject: Re: [olug] Atom systems on PCIE card
> 
> I was concerned that the card slot might be proprietary and/or reverse sex
> or something, if that makes sense.  It sort of reminds me of the old
> Compaq remote insight lights out boards.
> 
> "This solution is the same price, just add memory and disk. Very compact.
> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816101364"
> 
> That is what I was originally considering.  My only issue is that it wont
> fit into the server and they will charge extra.  For example Joe's Data
> Center would charge me an extra $15 a month to have the device.  This will
> be a redundant colo so I am trying to be as frugal as possible but @ $180
> a year it might not be worth the time to mess with.
> 
> "This looks like a way to make a poor man's blade server."
> I was sort of thinking that too, they have older dual Xeon ones
> http://www.ieiworld.com/product_groups/industrial/content.aspx?keyword=spcie-5100dx&gid=00001000010000000001&cid=08125382788155083144&id=09292670812378088792#
> 
> The poor mans blade server would be a used one off Ebay, they are cheap
> and tempting.  I am betting your typical blade consumer doesn't shop Ebay
> for used ones.
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