How good are SFF PCs as servers?

Skeeter · 30 Oct 2007 at 01:24

Ive looked at my old iDEQ 200N and figured it would be a great home server. Runs really quiet, small, looks nice, and is a great use for an otherwise unused and outdated AMD XP 2100+ system. Is there anything I should be wary of? Has anyone else used a SFF as a server? Im aware of the 2 HDD maximum (HDD bay and Floppy bay). Has anyone had any issues? Should I just go for it and buy 2x500GB HDDs?

Cheers

Tosk · 30 Oct 2007 at 02:14

yeah sff cases are fine for servers just a tip if you want to keep them quiet just make sure
every think you put into 1 is passive cooled.

if you wanted more hdds you could alway add more via usb using a External HDD Drives.

or via Network Storage Enclosure Drives

lsg1r · 30 Oct 2007 at 12:07

as said sff are fine for servers (if anything most high end nas devices are a kind of sff pc), obviously theres the hard drive restrictions but with a bit of modding even that can be solved in most cases.

Biffa · 31 Oct 2007 at 01:16

I run 3 vmware servers inside my SFF, each one a server in its own right, so yes