[PLUG] More tiny PC goodness

Terry Griffin griffint at pobox.com
Sun Oct 14 04:06:36 UTC 2007


On Saturday 13 October 2007 5:59 pm, eehouse.org wrote:
> > http://www.fit-pc.com/index.htm
> >
> > This would make a great little firewall.  Comes pre-installed with
> > Gentoo.
>
> The thing has a harddrive.  Either there have been some technical
> advances I missed or the website is lying when it says "absolutely
> silent".  I'd personally rather have a CF card slot for a firewall,
> but this is the first tiny PC I've seen where you don't have to install
> a drive yourself -- meaning they find the 1" IDE cable. :-)
>

It uses a conventional laptop hard drive. If I put my ear right
next to it I can hear the clicking of disk activity. But at a
more typical distance between ear and PC I can't hear a thing.

Terry




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