Re: Wanted - a Debian SOHO NAS

[Gary Roach <gary719_list1@verizon.net>]

On 11/10/2017 12:32 PM, Reco wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 11, 2017 at 06:25:01AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> > Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > What I'm looking for is a suitable replacement with the following
> > > treats:
> > >
> > > - Able to run Debian, stock kernel is strongly preferred.
> > > - Non-x86, and I don't need another kirkwood ARM.
> > > - Gigabit Ethernet.
> > > - 4 SATA disk slots.
> > > - I don't care whenever it's a box or a rack mount.
> >
> > The GnuBee PC-1 is already available
> > <URL:https://www.crowdsupply.com/gnubee/personal-cloud-1/>.
> >
> > The GnuBee PC-2 is being crowd-funded now (until 2017-11-30)
> > <URL:https://www.crowdsupply.com/gnubee/personal-cloud-2/>.
> >
> > Both meet your criteria I believe, as well as being open hardware
> > designs and have only free software requirements.
> >
> > Buy the former if you want one now. Fund the latter if you want 3.5-inch
> > drives.
>
> Terrific, thanks.
>
> I'll wait for 3.5'' one, maybe pledge something.
>
> Reco
I recently upgraded one of my boxes after a mother board failure. I did 
a fair amount of research and came up with the following:
	MSI1970A-G43 motherboard (very reasonably priced)
	AMD Athlon FX4350 4 core CPU
It's fast and handles Debian very well. I don't remember how much I 
paid, but it was reasonable. I also had to add an above board, cheep, 
graphics card ($45). While not too expensive, this is a gamers board and 
can be overclocked. There are 6 Sata slots and room for 16Gb memory. Has 
a nice BIOS screen. They have dropped IDE connectors. So if you have IDE 
drives you will need IDE to Sata adapters.

Hope this helps

GAry R