So, yesterday I unpacked all arrived components of my green media server, nicknamed "Atom". All components arrived separately and I really felt like 20 years ago, assembling first PC. I was able to lift in ITX motherboard to ITX minitower, first removing power supply off the way. Space was scarce. I installed 1 TB hard disk to its place. Soon I install next one to other 3,5" media bay, ment for multi-card reader or floppy. I installed Intel Pro 1000 Gigabit network card to free PCI slot, I fill use it instead of motherboards Realtek 100 Mbit one.
Then I cabeled everything - power to system board, fans, power to drives, front panel lights and swiches, SATA, IDE.
Luckily I had old IDE CD ROM drive to make Win XP x32 install and after that Intel Express driver install. I was most convinient system driver set install I've see - chipset, LAN card, display driver and sound device drivers were installed smoothly in one batch.
I installed XP SP3, AVG Free anti-virus, SmartDefrag and new Twonky 5.0 server. I also added LogMeIn client and HDtune.
Technical specifications and benchmarks after the break.
3 comments:
I'd like to build a similar server. Can you let us know the component manufacturers and part numbers?
More detailed tech data here:
http://jacksgadgets.blogspot.com/2009/02/internals-of-my-2-tb-atom-media-server.html
cheers
Jaak
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