Ah, I'm not familiar with those. I ended up buying a fairly old board, but one I knew would work (for everything) with the plan 9 kernels. I got a Supermicro X7SPA-H-D525, and while it isn't amazingly zippy (11 sec to build /sys/src/9/pc) it seems to be fast enough to be a file server.

Jim

On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 14:00 Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan <vdharani@gmail.com> wrote:

Assuming cost is not an issue, wouldn't intel Avoton based board be good for this?

Regards

dharani

On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:

hi,

mine is the older model which is not passively cooled, a fan is needed
(not to hand so i have no part numbers).

it has a 40mm cpu fan but that is all. the fan died (got very noisy) and i
replaced it but that was the only unreliable part of the server.

-steve

> On 22 Oct 2016, at 22:06, Steven Stallion <sstallion@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Stock heatsink with chassis cooling. I've had no issues since I've
> started using them back in 2012:
> http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/stallion/venti/fs.jpg
>
> On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 1:21 PM, James A. Robinson
> <jim.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:
>> For you folks with an Intel Atom D525 based motherboard
>> in your fileserver, do you run with a fanless? Use heatsink?
>> Use a fan? Use liquid cooling? Use a quantum heat sink?
>>
>> Jim
>>