Well, I see it for 320. Then you need to add a SSD, and a decent network
card, and I suppose it could be made to work. Awful big, tho, in an era
where I can get 1/2TB on an 2.5 inch SSD.

What I'd wanted was closer to a dreamplug - 160 bucks, two network ports,
but with an internal SSD. bonus points if it fit into a 1U rack and ate as
little power as possible.

Principal use case here is to be a "network monitor" with enough oomph to
run stuff like cacti/mrtg/snmp tools, as well as do captures off of a
mirrored switch port.



On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Dave Taht <dave.taht@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Mark Constable <markc@renta.net> wrote:
>
>> On 2013-02-03 09:18am, Dave Taht wrote:
>> > I'm grumpy, as it doesn't have an esata interface internally,
>> apparently.
>>
>> https://www.google.com?q=HP+N40L+MicroServer
>>
>> I know this is no where near an embedded device but I just got one of
>> these
>> on sale (new model out) for $220 and I think it's the most useful
>> all-round
>> cheap server box I've ever seen. Some people have it running 16 GB ram and
>> I've got mine booting off an SSD via external eSATA. Very well built with
>> 2
>> x half height PCI slots (4 x eth port card?). Only missing USB3 ports and
>> hot-swap drive space. And, very quiet with just an SSD.
>>
>
> I'd be very interested to know how fast it could do packet header captures.
>
> Line rate (gigE) would be good.
>
> Does it do BQL? (what is the onboard ethernet chips)
>
>
>
>
>
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