OS for an Atom based SFF?

#Chri5# · 2 Mar 2009 at 09:14

I'm going to build up an Atom 330 based SFF for acting as a home NAS and a few other lightweight tasks.

I have a license for both XP Pro and Vista Business. Does anyone run Vista on a 330? Tempted to stick with XP Pro at the moment...

I would have given Ubunto a try but I want to the box to run the Mozy backup client which doesn't have a Linux version (yet).

craptakular · 2 Mar 2009 at 09:29

vista will run like crap.

XP with nlite would be OK, ever considered looking into the linux/unix world?

EDIT: oh just seen your requirement for mozy, is there not a linux program to cover that?

#Chri5# · 2 Mar 2009 at 10:40

Cheers - will stick with a stripped down XP.

I've had a Google for Mozy on Linux - seems to be something other people want and has been rumoured at times but nothing concrete so far.

bledd · 2 Mar 2009 at 10:40

nlite xp pro would be perfect

Methanoid · 2 Mar 2009 at 11:00

I used an nLite'd XP Pro on my Eee Box and it was fine n dandy. A fair few people have run a well known fruity OS on their Atom based boards too.

craptakular · 2 Mar 2009 at 14:08

#Chri5# said:
Cheers - will stick with a stripped down XP.

I've had a Google for Mozy on Linux - seems to be something other people want and has been rumoured at times but nothing concrete so far.

what i mean is look for an alternative program that runs natively on linux that does the same thing as this mozy windows application.

#Chri5# · 2 Mar 2009 at 14:15

Oxy said:
what i mean is look for an alternative program that runs natively on linux that does the same thing as this mozy windows application.

Sorry

Mozy is sub £5/month for unlimited storage, so ideal for my MP3 and picture library (which is probably 100GB+ in total).

craptakular · 2 Mar 2009 at 14:47

#Chri5# said:
Sorry

Mozy is sub £5/month for unlimited storage, so ideal for my MP3 and picture library (which is probably 100GB+ in total).

oh so its not backupto a HDD on another computer or external drive. is mozy web based? Could u upload via firefox?

#Chri5# · 2 Mar 2009 at 15:00

Not AFAIK, Mozy has a client app you install.

Rabtech · 2 Mar 2009 at 15:31

Oxy said:
vista will run like crap.

I beg to differ, Vista actually runs very well on my MSI Wind with Atom N270 CPU. Generally speaking XP is better suited considering its lesser requirements, however an Atom based machine with 1GB of ram will run Vista fine.

craptakular · 2 Mar 2009 at 15:53

Rabtech said:
I beg to differ, Vista actually runs very well on my MSI Wind with Atom N270 CPU. Generally speaking XP is better suited considering its lesser requirements, however an Atom based machine with 1GB of ram will run Vista fine.

depends on your definition of "very well"

stopstartstall · 2 Mar 2009 at 16:53

I've got an Atom 330 running vista, use it as a download box and for media centre stuff and it's fine. It can sometimes take 10 seconds or so to catch up with itself when I browse movies in media centre (it has to load 200+ sets of cover art and animate itself through them all) but I've not experienced any slowdown anywhere else. It can play 720p files perfectly well also.

Rabtech · 2 Mar 2009 at 17:23

Oxy said:
depends on your definition of "very well"

Depends on your personal opinion of Vista...

As daft as it sounds, I have a 4 year old Acer laptop - Travelmate 4500 series that actually runs better on Vista than XP, even loading multiple clients of Eve Online are smoother than it was than XP.

Anyways the whole point of my post above was to report that Vista works fine on N270+ Atom platforms without any adverse performance loss.