So late last week I received the fan replacement I ordered. This one is a little more than half the noise volume of the original: 25 dBA vs. 42 dBA. I can’t hear this fan over my desktop computer, which has loud fans all over the place. I built that one for gaming about six [...]
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Mini-ITX Appliance Update
I have finally gotten around to writing about progress on the Mini-ITX appliance. It’s built, has Fedora 11 on it, and I have a couple hardware related changes to make. One, is that the Mainboard shipped with a rather loud CPU fan. So I looked for a 40mm 4-pin fan with no luck, so I [...]
Mini-ITX Storage Appliance
So I haven’t posted in a while. But I am working on something that I hope takes off. It’s a NAS device that I’m building using a Mini-ITX board, a notebook computer CPU, notebook drives and memory and a very small Mini-ITX enclosure. This actually has a couple use cases – the NAS appliance, but [...]
