Furunculus's new SFF PC's

Hi all,

Something of an after the fact, but thought i'd provide some notes on recent PC adventures.

New HTPC for the living room.
I built the following bits:
Haswell Quad i5
2x 4GB of DDR3-1600
Sapphire AMD R9-270
240GB Crucial M500 SSD
Corsair H75 AIO cooler
In-Win 901 mITX case
Asus Z97I-Pro mITX board

Completely over the top for the duties it needs to perform; light gaming (in theory), and watching video (in practice), but it is my reserve PC in case my main box dies a horrible (and prolonged) death.

Bought a bling yellow motherboard, yellow heatsinked ram, and yellow braided PSU cables. With the glass panels on the side and an LED strip it looks awesome, particularly slotted sideways into my TV bench.

Great case, very easy to work with compared to anything else SFF I have ever tried.

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The other adventure was creating a home-server, and for this I went went with Opensuse/Owncloud on a cheap 15W box i leave on all the time.

For the box I bought an Acer Aspire XC-105 SFF box using the 15W AMD kabini chip.
Installing Opensuse is a doddle, as always.
After that, use YAST to enable Apache and install PHP media-info thingy
Use oneclick install to install owncloud, and run through the wizard.

Enabling https is complex, and i can't claim i did it, but easy enough for someone who knows how.
After that, I set my router to a static IP address, telling it to forward all https content to the opensuse/owncloud IP, and telling opensuse yast firewall to reject all traffic that isn't https.

Now I can access all my stuff from anywhere in the world, including from my mobile phone.

Happy days.

I went a cheaper, more off-the-shelf route for a home server.

(Well, in fairness, it's really a home NAS, but the lines are getting kinda blurry.)

-edit-

Came very close to getting the same case. Let us know how it goes, please?

https://i.imgur.com/A8RUfHz.jpg

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Originally Posted by Furunculus

The other adventure was creating a home-server, and for this I went went with Opensuse/Owncloud on a cheap 15W box i leave on all the time.

For the box I bought an Acer Aspire XC-105 SFF box using the 15W AMD kabini chip.
Installing Opensuse is a doddle, as always.
After that, use YAST to enable Apache and install PHP media-info thingy
Use oneclick install to install owncloud, and run through the wizard.

Enabling https is complex, and i can't claim i did it, but easy enough for someone who knows how.
After that, I set my router to a static IP address, telling it to forward all https content to the opensuse/owncloud IP, and telling opensuse yast firewall to reject all traffic that isn't https.

Now I can access all my stuff from anywhere in the world, including from my mobile phone.

Happy days.

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Nice! A low power home server is something that grabs my interest. How much did it set you back?

My current home server is a GoFlex that I paid exactly $0 for. It's previous owner scooped the 1TB SATA drive out of it and was going to toss the case and dock, when I offered to scoop it up- I plopped an 80GB drive I had laying around in it and have been using that for shared storage on my network.
The cool thing about the GoFlex is that the dock, which is the brains of the unit, is a tiny Linux box. I can log onto it via SSH and modify settings that aren't available to the normal web user.

I have home drives and a public share on it and it's also a USB print server. :2thumbsup:

the amd kabini version of this acer SFF box supplied with FreeDOS (roffle), cost me £150:

http://www.ebuyer.com/613262-acer-as...c-dt-sulek-004

furunculus has a new gaming PC (or at least mostly new):

Haswell-E 5820K
4x 4GB of DDR4-2400
Sapphire AMD 7970 (MSI Lightning) two years old, will be replaced in 2015 with something 20nm
128GB Crucial M300 SSD - also old, will be replaced by a 1TB m.2 nvme SSD in 2015
Corsair H75 AIO cooler
Silverstone Fortress 05 case
MSI X99 SLI-Plus m/b

storage is transitioning from 1TB+2TB (x3) to 1TB+5TB (x3)