Im in the process of building up a via epia based system to use as a firewall/router. Im sick to death of my neatgear so I have put together enough spare parts to build a 2 nic system as a replacement. The only parts I want to change out are the 4gig HD and the 2nd nic.
The HD I plan on replacing with a DOM and the 2nd nic with a dual NIC which would give me 3 NICs and a silent drive.
I was hoping the answer would be something like that. The smallest cheap DOM I could find was actually on ebay for a 512MB, which is good enough and since I wont be caching anything I should be in great shape.
Hehe …
You haven’t listened to that drive run, every access to the drive sounds like a heard of elephants stampeding though the case
With the motherboard in use being fanless and switching over to the DOM I’m even thinking about just un-plugging the fan in the case, but so far its as advertised - quiet
I have used a Dane Elec 512MB CF drive for some time. But the drive became unreadable do to some unknown reason. So i changed back to my 6 GB Harddrive
In the meantime i found out that the cartonboard i used to place the cf flash ide converter on got a litte wet So the CF was shorted out.
I thought about a CF, but the adapter I have wouldnt work in the case. So it was cheaper/easier to just order a DOM.
Im using a via epia based board with a 800mhz processor on it, Im trying to scrounge up enough ram to run it at 512mb but right now its at 256mb. Yeah its a bit of overkill but thats what spare parts are like in my house
Ill be giving the hardware a final workout this weekend and hopefully have the router up in going late sunday or monday.
