Fanless Aleutia F5 Slim Now Available for Pre Order – No Moving Parts, Fits in Your Hand
Sharing the same internal spec as the model below (1.0 GHz Via Eden ULV CPU, 1GB DDR2 400MHz RAM, 12V DC Input, 10 Watts) but in a slimmer case since it's designed to accomodate 2.5" laptop drives. So we can't offer a Terabyte of storage as standard but we can use extremly fast solid state drives to offer a tiny PC with no moving parts that's not crummy when it comes to performance. And the thick anodized aluminum case puts the Mac Mini to shame.
Standard configurations will be:
- 8GB CF Card with Ubuntu or Crunchbang (a lighterweight version of Ubuntu that includes Flash)
- 30GB OCZ SSD (155 MB/s Read Speed, 90 MB/s Write Speed)
Hard Drives:
- 40GB SATA Seagate 5400RPM Drive (faster than CF card, cheaper than SSD)
- 250GB 7200RPM Western Digital Scorpio Black Drive
- 500GB 5400RPM Western Digital Scorpio Blue Drive
Email sales at aleutia dot com to place pre orders and we can send a Paypal Invoice over. Shipping in UK is £7.50 to Europe it's €15, and pretty much anywhere else is $30.
Seagate Skips SSDs
We've been rather impressed with Seagate hard drives. We still use IDE Western Digital drives (WD800BEVE, 1600BEVE, and 2500BEVE) in our E2s on account of their quietness, minimal power consumption (about 1 additional watt) and general reliability. But our new Atom PC runs on SATA-II and what's more our forthcoming E3 likely will as well.
Seagate has made some great inroads with their new 7200.3 series. Low power, a bit noisy, 7200 RPM, and 16MB Cache. It has 80MB/sec read speed and 50MB/sec write speed - that's way above CF cards and approaching SSD levels.
As they announced today in London, they're skipping the market. To quote Bill Watson, "When Samsung can't make money at this… it's a tough market."
Of course, we're happy to take advantage of loss leaders and will be announcing the Atom PC with 32GB OCZ SSD (Ubuntu or Vista) next week