Fanless Small Network Server with Dual NIC and Low Power Intel Atom Processor

18 January 2010 in Uncategorized by michael | 1 comment

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Many customers buy the Aleutia T1 to use an always-on server. It supports PXE Network boot and can be configured to automatically Power On after Power Loss. It is also very low power, using only 17 Watts under load. With 500GB and 750GB 2.5″ laptop drives now affordable, this makes it ideal as a small, low power network server.

However, the T1 has only 1 network port (10/100/1000) and naturally a lot of projects require two network ports.

We recently solved this for one of our customers by using a PCI Gigabit Network card with full Linux support and mounting it with a riser card in a larger, ventilated case. This has the advantage of offering more air flow. It’s not VESA-mountable like the T1 but it can be wall mounted.

Unlike many fanless network servers, the T1 Dual NIC comes with 2GB RAM (OEM customers can have 512MB or 1GB for less) and a decent x86 processor in the Intel Atom N270 at 1.6GHz.

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  1. Martin Muckle’s avatar

    Martin Muckle on 27 February 2010 at 7:12 am

    Is this the kind of thing I would need to run a small (10-12 machine) network in a school computer lab? Can you supply all the parts needed (I have solar panels and batteries) to set up a networked lab?

    Thanks