On Sun, 3 Mar 2013 09:59:56 -0600 Bill Gatliff <bgat@billgatliff.com> allegedly wrote: > On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Ted To <rainexpected@theo.to> wrote: > > Globalscale has a couple with two ethernet ports but they are not > > as cheap as the typical plug computer. Never used one so I can't > > tell you much else. > > I'm ambivalent to the Globalscale Dreamplug. I purchased one, and was > VERY pleased that it came with Debian already pre-installed. But I > was greatly concerned from the beginning at how hot it runs, so I have > been careful to keep it well-ventilated. > > About two months of putting it into service, it started OOPSing with > command timeouts from the internal SD card. And they got > progressively quicker as time marched on. The thing is basically > unusable after three months. I don't know if this issue is > heat-related, but I can't help but wonder. Especially since the > system boots and runs fine when it's cool, and I haven't seen any > OOPSes until things are fairly well heat-soaked and I'm leaning on the > filesystem (apt-get update, etc.). I have used a sheevaplug for some time and it too gets very hot. Worse, the PSU gives up after anywhere from 3 months to a year. I had one last a year, my last one gave up after about 8 months. I considered the dreamplug as a potential firewall device, but given my experience of the sheeva (and comments on various fora on-line) I just wouldn't trust it. Mick --------------------------------------------------------------------- blog: baldric.net gpg fingerprint: FC23 3338 F664 5E66 876B 72C0 0A1F E60B 5BAD D312 ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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