Server

Date: 06/10/2012

Mini-ITX server October 2012

I installed a Silicon Image 4-Port SATA PCI card. The motherboard only has two SATA ports so I needed this to add extra storage. I added in a 500GB HDD after updating the cards firmware while installed in my Windows machine. I also added a card reader with some USB ports. On the software side of things I now use Webmin to remotely administer the server.

Date: 06/09/2011

Mini-ITX server September 2011

I scrapped my last idea for a server case. It was too cramped to add further hard drives and cooling would have been a pain. Instead I got an old PC tower and cut out about half of it's depth. Where the old ATX motherboard used to lie is now half mini-itx motherboard and half hard drives. I have two hard drives installed and can add a third in a few seconds, a fourth will also be possible with a bit more work.

Above you can see the tower with it's original internals from around 1999, and below that how the it looks with my server build installed. I did the work to get this far at least a month ago. Since then I've been using it but haven't had to chance to paint it and finish it fully. Some day it'll happen.

Date: 21/04/2011

Mini-ITX server April 2011

I found a suitable enclosure for my server. It once held three bottle of wine. I haven't had time to finish out this build but when after my exams I'll get around to it.

Date: 02/02/2011

Mini-ITX server February 2011

My Intel D201GLY2 kicked the bucket so I replaced it with an ASRock A330GC. The atom processor in the new motherboard has noticably increased performance. I had no issues with the linux graphics drivers on the new board unlike the SIS controller on the old Intel board.

Date: 13/01/2011

Mini-ITX server January 2011

Using mainly parts bought on eBay I have put together a more powerful and expandable version of my server. I now run the server headless, managed by remote desktop using krfb on the linux side and tight VNC on windows.The new set up is much faster than the previous netbook version in terms of both CPU power and the fact that the hard drives now interface using SATA instead of USB. I used an old PSU which was missing a P4 or SATA connectors, to solve this I bought a molex to p4 adaptor and several molex to SATA adaptors.

Component Type	Component Name
Mini-ITX motherboard	Intel D201GLY2
Embedded CPU	Celeron 220 1.2GHZ
Ram	Samsung DDR2 PC6400 1GB
DOM	Kingspec 8GB
PSU	AOpen FSP250-60GTA

Date: 10/12/2010

eeeServer December 2010

This is my first attempt to create a home server. It is built some spare components but eventually I will make a more permanent version. The purpose of the sever is to be a central storage of media files and backups, running 24/7 on Ubuntu 10.10. The server is running mediatomb, which is a UpNp server managed via a web interface.I use a hacked WDTV with a USB to ethernet adaptor to stream media to my living room from Mediatomb on the server .The server provides open access SAMBA shares throughout my home network.