{"id":956,"date":"2011-02-06T22:58:13","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T05:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=956"},"modified":"2011-02-06T22:58:13","modified_gmt":"2011-02-07T05:58:13","slug":"the-static-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=956","title":{"rendered":"The static experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Akrin is an server whose soul has been through many iterations of old hardware. It never needed much resources so I easily got away with $30 PCs bought at the university surplus.<\/p>\n<p>It currently resides on an aged Pentium IV with just 500MB of RAM and some old IDE hard drive. With the addition of more &amp; more projects (recently: CCTV installation, new sites such as <a title=\"Blindspot I.S.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.blindspotis.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.blindspotis.com<\/a>, database intensive Markov chains generation), it&#8217;s close to maximum capacity and could use an upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>More than new hardware I&#8217;ve decided it was time to change how computing was done at home.\u00a0 And I&#8217;m going for <strong>no moving parts<\/strong>. This means no fans, no spinning disks and no moving heads.<\/p>\n<p>What are the advantages?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>no vibrations, not an iota of noise<\/li>\n<li>no jet take off sound when running heavier computation<\/li>\n<li>no malfunctioning fans that could result in a fire hazard<\/li>\n<li>supposedly hardware that is more resistant to shocks<\/li>\n<li>fanless means less powerful which in terms means less power consumption<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I ordered:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Habey EPC-6542 ($230) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newegg.com\/Product\/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16859324012&amp;Tpk=habey%20epc-6542\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.habeyusa.com\/products_show.php?id=358\" target=\"_blank\">full specs<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t come with RAM or a hard drive. I like the small form factor and the fact that it has 2 NICs. This means it can easily be recycled in a nice router should the experiment fail.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Some RAM (DDR2 SODIMM), I went for the max 2GB that the EPC-6542 will support. ($45) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newegg.com\/Product\/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820134663\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A 2.5&#8243; SATA II 128GB solid state disk (SSD) ($223 &#8211; $75 mail in rebate = $148) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newegg.com\/Product\/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820139137\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now SSDs are pretty expensive compared to traditional hard drives so it is a high price to pay for no moving parts. But they are also much faster, and because of the CCTV cams recording\u00a0 24\/7, I think that the I\/O speed gain will have a tremendous overall effect on the server.<\/p>\n<p>Akrin will soon run on $423 of new hardware, this is unprecedented \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>To be continued&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Akrin is an server whose soul has been through many iterations of old hardware. It never needed much resources so I easily got away with $30 PCs bought at the university surplus. It currently resides on an aged Pentium IV with just 500MB of RAM and some old IDE hard drive. With the addition of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/?p=956\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The static experiment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-out-geekery","category-i-t"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ben.akrin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}