Sunday, June 07

Geek

Bincho-tan!

It's pitch black, it's a cube (roughly), and it's small (relatively), so Bincho-tan it is.

One of these:

http://ai.mee.nu/images/Bincho-box.jpg

With four 1TB Western Digital SlowPokeâ„¢ drives installed.

It's an Acer Aspire EasyStore.  It's basically a little Linux box with an ARM processor, 128MB of RAM (I think), gigabit ethernet, WiFi, and four SATA drive bays.  Its compact size, low price, and RAID support make it look like a good alternative to external drives, so I bought one and stuffed it full of disks.  We'll see how it goes.

There's a new model out now which is quite a bit more powerful (and has proper hot-swap drive trays instead of just rails) - but also quite a bit more expensive, and it runs Windows Home Server instead of Linux.

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Did you know about this? Australian tax rebate on computer equipment

Maybe it might apply to you.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Monday, June 08 2009 06:29 AM (+rSRq)

2 I'd heard of it, but hadn't looked into the details.

I was looking at getting a new development server...

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, June 08 2009 09:48 AM (PiXy!)

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