![]() Whatever your objective, I think this machine is a great platform to build a personal homeserver, and especially the 4 drive bays make it a cheaper, faster, and much more flexible replacement for any consumer NAS device (Netgear, Synology, QNAP). Or, even more advanced, setup this VPN instance as a VPN server itself (using pptpd), thus allowing other machines in the household to benefit from that VPN access as well and control your server via remote access from anywhere. Or, if you are unlucky enough to no to be living on the North American continent, and therefore deprived of many media services, you could create another instance of Debian just for Squeezebox Server, with a pptp client routing all its internet traffic via a friendly VPN outlet to the US. Transmission, Deluge), and to physically separate these services from the main OS. This is potentially interesting if you prefer the stability and longevity of Debian as a main OS but would like to run the latest and greatest software from Ubuntu PPAs (e.g. Too bad HP is not selling these without HD and without RAM.the defaults are somewhat useless these days.įor the technically intrigued, you can easily setup Debian as a Xen host (dom0), with several virtual guest operating systems (for example another Debian, or Ubuntu) running alongside the main operating system. ![]() Hardware upgrades done on my machine were adding another 4 GB of RAM, replacing the built-in 250 GB drive by 3x2 TB Western Digital drives, and installing an SSD drive for the OS (you also need another SATA cable). software RAID) as well, with less flexibility (no RAID5). The CPU is easily fast enough to run a software RAID configuration in Linux (mdadm), which I recommend, as the built-in "RAID" controller is just fake-raid (i.e. for XBMC running on a Shuttle XS35GT next to my TV). It runs Squeezebox server, Transmission BT, as well as Samba, Netatalk and NFS for access to the media collection from various operating systems (e.g. I configured it to run Debian Squeeze (on an SSD drive connected to the additional internal SATA port), with 3x2 TB setup as a RAID5 array (yielding 4 TB with redundancy) for my media collection and other uses. It replaced a small Atom Nettop (Squeezebox) and a Readynas Duo (storage). ![]() I bought one of these around one month ago, and for me it is the perfect machine to setup a little home server.
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