SFF single board computer to act a firewall, torrent box etc

Those are really cool. I wanted to get myself one, but wasn't able to source one, so ended up going for an Atom all-in-one board which works better anyway, I feel.
Pity I couldn't source a SFF chassis for less than the cost of the rest of the machine, and had to stick it in an ATX case.
 
I will say now that I do not know how fast an ARM 1.2GHz is compared to other architectures.

But how different is it to having a <insert old computer here> running linux with something like smoothwall?

EDIT: I see the price starts at $149 without there being any mention of what you are getting into.

Personally I avoid these types of sales pitches..
 
Not very different. Can probably get alot more done on an old machine with linux and smoothwall. Ofcourse, at a much higher power consumption level and giving up some more space.
 
milomak said:
I will say now that I do not know how fast an ARM 1.2GHz is compared to other architectures.

But how different is it to having a <insert old computer here> running linux with something like smoothwall?

EDIT: I see the price starts at $149 without there being any mention of what you are getting into.

Personally I avoid these types of sales pitches..
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The new ARM architectures are pretty fast. The upshot is one of these boards only uses about 3-5W which you are not going to achieve with a old pc or even a atom based board.

All the specs and details are on the site, just try and read. These are developer boards and targeted at the hacker types out there. They are not trying to rip anyone off so there is no "sales pitch".
 
How much power does it take to do routing for a home environment? I get full 4MBit on just a 200MHz Linksys router along with other routing.
 
ponder said:
The new ARM architectures are pretty fast. The upshot is one of these boards only uses about 3-5W which you are not going to achieve with a old pc or even a atom based board.

All the specs and details are on the site, just try and read. These are developer boards and targeted at the hacker types out there. They are not trying to rip anyone off so there is no "sales pitch".
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on top of what TheRifter says,

what about the hardware I need?
 
Guys, why argue about this? It's a really cool little machine. It has USB x 4, a hard drive and more processing power than any router that I know of - it runs XP and even Office fine.
The fact that they're fanless and run off of an AC-adapter is also pretty cool.

Take it for what it is and if you don't see the point of getting one, don't get one!
They can be had from Proline, if you can find one available, for around R1300 with a 40gb hard drive which you can of course upgrade, last I checked.
 
Messugga said:
Guys, why argue about this? It's a really cool little machine. It has USB x 4, a hard drive and more processing power than any router that I know of - it runs XP and even Office fine.
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Bit confused, what are you referring to?
 
To put the ARM CPU into perspective, this is the spec. of nokia's 6110 navigator.

CPU Type ARM 11
CPU Clock Rate 369 MHz
 
Yeah, the ARM processors are fantastic units. Lots of embedded boards out there I've been dying to buy and play around with.

Anyone here actually do some ARM development work and can recommend a nice easy board to start with?
 
I have actually mucked about with ARM. It was on the unit inside one of the Atmel GPRS modems.
Not the easiest thing on earth to figure out :p
 
TheRift said:
Anyone here actually do some ARM development work and can recommend a nice easy board to start with?
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Not a developer but I have played around with assembly language on different architectures and ARM has a pretty neat instruction set if you ask me.
 
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