Ok, managed to talk with our repeater group and decided to move foward with using apt_rpt for our controller. I've managed to snag a decent intel atom D510 board and 4gb of ram for it as well as a direct 12v power supply. Now we are wondering about a hard drive option, USB Flash Drive, CF Card Solution, SSD mini-PCI card, what would you suggest for the longest life and least amount of headaches? I plan on running as much of the filespaces in a ramdrive that I can to reduce access to the SSD device. Thanks! Keith Dobbins A.S. Flight Paramedic 3402 Linden Street Parkersburg, WV 26104-1608 304-834-0266 Amateur Radio Call Sign: KC8RFW
The D510 (as far as I have been able to determine thus far) is thermally toiletic! Watch out for meltdowns! You have been warned! Limey Linux is a VERY good option for a small system that is really only going to be a repeater and not do other things. If you are intending to use a full Linux distro, such as ACID (highly recommended) you REALLY want to do it with and SSD or similar device. If not, use Limey. It simple, painless, and efficient. JIM
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 09:47:31 -0700 From: dobbins125@yahoo.com To: app_rpt-users@qrvc.com Subject: [App_rpt-users] Hard Disk Options
Ok, managed to talk with our repeater group and decided to move foward with using apt_rpt for our controller. I've managed to snag a decent intel atom D510 board and 4gb of ram for it as well as a direct 12v power supply. Now we are wondering about a hard drive option, USB Flash Drive, CF Card Solution, SSD mini-PCI card, what would you suggest for the longest life and least amount of headaches? I plan on running as much of the filespaces in a ramdrive that I can to reduce access to the SSD device.
Thanks!
Keith Dobbins A.S. Flight Paramedic 3402 Linden Street Parkersburg, WV 26104-1608 304-834-0266
Amateur Radio Call Sign: KC8RFW
_______________________________________________ App_rpt-users mailing list App_rpt-users@qrvc.com http://qrvc.com/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users
Yikes! Thats what my repeater is running. I am using a 16GB CF card as my HDD been working greate. It does not do much disk activty since its just a repeater. I hope my D510 does not melt down like Jim stated. On Sun, 18 Jul 2010, Jim Duuuude wrote:
The D510 (as far as I have been able to determine thus far) is thermally toiletic! Watch out for meltdowns! You have been warned!
Limey Linux is a VERY good option for a small system that is really only going to be a repeater and not do other things. If you are intending to use a full Linux distro, such as ACID (highly recommended) you REALLY want to do it with and SSD or similar device. If not, use Limey. It simple, painless, and efficient.
JIM
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 09:47:31 -0700 From: dobbins125@yahoo.com To: app_rpt-users@qrvc.com Subject: [App_rpt-users] Hard Disk Options
Ok, managed to talk with our repeater group and decided to move foward with using apt_rpt for our controller. I've managed to snag a decent intel atom D510 board and 4gb of ram for it as well as a direct 12v power supply. Now we are wondering about a hard drive option, USB Flash Drive, CF Card Solution, SSD mini-PCI card, what would you suggest for the longest life and least amount of headaches? I plan on running as much of the filespaces in a ramdrive that I can to reduce access to the SSD device.
Thanks!
Keith Dobbins A.S. Flight Paramedic 3402 Linden Street Parkersburg, WV 26104-1608 304-834-0266
Amateur Radio Call Sign: KC8RFW
_______________________________________________ App_rpt-users mailing list App_rpt-users@qrvc.com http://qrvc.com/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users
You know you're just attracting early and swift retribution from the 'Murphy' gods when you design systems like that... CF is meant to be essentially read-only. Dont think of it as anything else then an easily-programmable EPROM. First of all, there is NO SUCH THING as a UNIX-like OS that 'doesnt write to the disk much', no matter how much you may convince yourself otherwise. Also, the writes to CF completely disrupt the rest of the stuff going on with the CPU/system, and therefore must only be relegated to 'offline' activities. If you want to use a 'standard' (non-embedded) distro, use an SSD device NOT a flash card. Pay the price. Dont whine. Otherwise, use a RAM-based operating distro, SUCH as Limey Linux that LOADS from CF and RUNS in RAM. This is a VERY nice option for app_rpt nodes.
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:22:50 -0700 From: ke6sth@ke6sth.ampr.org To: telesistant@hotmail.com CC: dobbins125@yahoo.com; app_rpt-users@qrvc.com Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] Hard Disk Options
Yikes! Thats what my repeater is running. I am using a 16GB CF card as my HDD been working greate. It does not do much disk activty since its just a repeater. I hope my D510 does not melt down like Jim stated.
On Sun, 18 Jul 2010, Jim Duuuude wrote:
The D510 (as far as I have been able to determine thus far) is thermally toiletic! Watch out for meltdowns! You have been warned!
Limey Linux is a VERY good option for a small system that is really only going to be a repeater and not do other things. If you are intending to use a full Linux distro, such as ACID (highly recommended) you REALLY want to do it with and SSD or similar device. If not, use Limey. It simple, painless, and efficient.
JIM
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 09:47:31 -0700 From: dobbins125@yahoo.com To: app_rpt-users@qrvc.com Subject: [App_rpt-users] Hard Disk Options
Ok, managed to talk with our repeater group and decided to move foward with using apt_rpt for our controller. I've managed to snag a decent intel atom D510 board and 4gb of ram for it as well as a direct 12v power supply. Now we are wondering about a hard drive option, USB Flash Drive, CF Card Solution, SSD mini-PCI card, what would you suggest for the longest life and least amount of headaches? I plan on running as much of the filespaces in a ramdrive that I can to reduce access to the SSD device.
Thanks!
Keith Dobbins A.S. Flight Paramedic 3402 Linden Street Parkersburg, WV 26104-1608 304-834-0266
Amateur Radio Call Sign: KC8RFW
_______________________________________________ App_rpt-users mailing list App_rpt-users@qrvc.com http://qrvc.com/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users
No whining here :) I been using CF for stuff like my Juniper router/firewall that do alot of disk writing for traffic logging, so far 5 years of disk access no problem. I don't know if it has to do with brand, but i always been sticking with SanDisk. On Mon, 19 Jul 2010, Jim Duuuude wrote:
You know you're just attracting early and swift retribution from the 'Murphy' gods when you design systems like that...
CF is meant to be essentially read-only. Dont think of it as anything else then an easily-programmable EPROM.
First of all, there is NO SUCH THING as a UNIX-like OS that 'doesnt write to the disk much', no matter how much you may convince yourself otherwise.
Also, the writes to CF completely disrupt the rest of the stuff going on with the CPU/system, and therefore must only be relegated to 'offline' activities.
If you want to use a 'standard' (non-embedded) distro, use an SSD device NOT a flash card. Pay the price. Dont whine.
Otherwise, use a RAM-based operating distro, SUCH as Limey Linux that LOADS from CF and RUNS in RAM. This is a VERY nice option for app_rpt nodes.
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:22:50 -0700 From: ke6sth@ke6sth.ampr.org To: telesistant@hotmail.com CC: dobbins125@yahoo.com; app_rpt-users@qrvc.com Subject: Re: [App_rpt-users] Hard Disk Options
Yikes! Thats what my repeater is running. I am using a 16GB CF card as my HDD been working greate. It does not do much disk activty since its just a repeater. I hope my D510 does not melt down like Jim stated.
On Sun, 18 Jul 2010, Jim Duuuude wrote:
The D510 (as far as I have been able to determine thus far) is thermally toiletic! Watch out for meltdowns! You have been warned!
Limey Linux is a VERY good option for a small system that is really only going to be a repeater and not do other things. If you are intending to use a full Linux distro, such as ACID (highly recommended) you REALLY want to do it with and SSD or similar device. If not, use Limey. It simple, painless, and efficient.
JIM
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 09:47:31 -0700 From: dobbins125@yahoo.com To: app_rpt-users@qrvc.com Subject: [App_rpt-users] Hard Disk Options
Ok, managed to talk with our repeater group and decided to move foward with using apt_rpt for our controller. I've managed to snag a decent intel atom D510 board and 4gb of ram for it as well as a direct 12v power supply. Now we are wondering about a hard drive option, USB Flash Drive, CF Card Solution, SSD mini-PCI card, what would you suggest for the longest life and least amount of headaches? I plan on running as much of the filespaces in a ramdrive that I can to reduce access to the SSD device.
Thanks!
Keith Dobbins A.S. Flight Paramedic 3402 Linden Street Parkersburg, WV 26104-1608 304-834-0266
Amateur Radio Call Sign: KC8RFW
_______________________________________________ App_rpt-users mailing list App_rpt-users@qrvc.com http://qrvc.com/mailman/listinfo/app_rpt-users
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