<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 14, 2018, at 10:02 AM, Brian Cully <<a href="mailto:bcully@gmail.com" class="">bcully@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On January 12, 2018 at 13:02:15, Isaac (.ike) Levy<br class="">(<a href="mailto:ike@blackskyresearch.net" class="">ike@blackskyresearch.net</a>) wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">I'll second Shawn on this, there was just a thread on PCEngines this in December, here's<br class="">my long ramble:<br class=""><a href="http://lists.nycbug.org/pipermail/talk/2017-December/017422.html" class="">http://lists.nycbug.org/pipermail/talk/2017-December/017422.html</a><br class="">In short- the PCEngines people are awesome, the gear is stellar for your purposes.<br class=""><br class="">PCEngines board - apu2c4 - $132<br class="">http://pcengines.ch/apu2c4.htm<br class=""><br class="">Case - case1d2blku - $10.00<br class="">(Case can be black, red, blue)<br class="">http://pcengines.ch/case1d2blku.htm<br class=""><br class="">AC adapter 12V 2A US plug - ac12vus2 $4.40<br class="">http://pcengines.ch/ac12vus2.htm<br class=""><br class="">SSD M-Sata 16GB MLC - $17.80<br class="">http://pcengines.ch/msata16g.htm<br class=""><br class="">$ 164.20 - Each Router + shipping.<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Thanks, everyone. I did end up purchasing an apu2c4. Price was higher<br class="">than this (by almost $100!), though. pcengines was sold out of their<br class="">boards, and external vendors were more expensive. But at least it all<br class="">comes pre-assembled, so less waiting for parts.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Just another option to think about… I was recently looking for a replacement for a </div><div>personal 1U box on ebay (and I missed a good one by hours!), but I found quite a</div><div>few people selling Supermicro 1U Atom boxes. Maybe not the best, but cheap, </div><div>can likely survive without a fan, and you likely jam more ports in there.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Example of an ended auction:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/Server-Supermicro-Intel-Atom-D525-Mini-1U-Rackmount-SATA-TESTED-Working-Great-/232596282461?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&nma=true&si=gWZ%2FyqhCG6KLYlzQFPHYl3Gdr5U%3D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc" class="">https://www.ebay.com/itm/Server-Supermicro-Intel-Atom-D525-Mini-1U-Rackmount-SATA-TESTED-Working-Great-/232596282461?_trksid=p2047675.l2557&nma=true&si=gWZ%252FyqhCG6KLYlzQFPHYl3Gdr5U%253D&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc</a></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">-bjc<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">talk mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:talk@lists.nycbug.org" class="">talk@lists.nycbug.org</a><br class="">http://lists.nycbug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></body></html>