Look, ma! No moving parts!
- Via Pico-ITX motherboard;
- 10cm x 7.2cm x 6cm (est height)
- 1x SATA, 1x IDE, 4x USB2.0
- 14 - 20 watts power usage
- reviewed here
- currently retailing at about $230
- 4x PQI 256GB SSD drive. 10 x 7 x 2cm
- probably available here first
- note that as of 6/8/2007, a 64 gb SSD costs $3k (!!!). But prices should come down pretty rapidly.
- June 26, Samsung announced they are massproducing 64gb SSD. And that SSD can get a lot smaller.
- Crystalfontz 631 LCD display.
- M200 LCD Case 24 x 20 x 5.4cm
- SATA Multiplier
Dimensions above are Length x Width x Height
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Actually the case is probably way large. More likely the whole thing could fit, with PS inside (no extra power brick please!), into an aluminum-finny case the size of a paperback dictionary, weighing maybe 5 lbs. And tada, you have a terabyte server that has no moving parts and can probably follow you around for life.
Another way to put it: take this Zonbu box ($250 w/o subscription). Add a terabyte of solidstate storage (current price probably $30k). Viola: blisterpack terabyte for sale in the supermarket checkout line, once the economies of scale really kick in.
There's a guy selling what looks like the Zonbu hardware with Asterisk, Linux, and FreeBSD configs starting around $400. All configs seem to have only 256MB of ram, but he has 1- and 2-nic configs with anywhere from 40GB to 160GB of internal (rotating hard disk) storage.
(no picture) Here is the Fit PC, at about $285 as of Oct 2007. Maxes out at 256mB RAM.
This is the Nohrtec Microclient Jr. It has the equivalent of a 166MHz Pentium (MMX-capable x86) , AGP 4x VGA graphics controller, sound, software modem, ethernet, 128MB of soldered-on (non-upgradeable) RAM. With wireless, it costs about $170. It can bolt to the VESA mounting of many LCD displays. Boots and runs from CF disk.
The Solarlite PC - $100 with VIA 733 CPU based motherboard, 128 MB of ram, CF drive, DC-DC ATX power board, IDE>CF adapter. Currently in pilot phase, available to .edu buyers.
This Dual CF-IDE adapter is 2 bucks. Combine it with pair of 4GB CF cards (around $30) (one for OS, one for swap - replace the swap CF as needed) in an existing PC and you have a diskless, fast booting system for termserv or tinyOS use.
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