Tonight I fished the first pass at migrating my new web site from its development machine to its new home on a nearly identical machine. More information is here.
I’m really enjoying the Supermicro MBD-X7SPA-H-O motherboards in the new web server and gateway. With 6 SATA ports and dual ethernet, and Intel D510 Atom processors that are easy to keep cool, they work well in a reasonable case. I’m also really liking the Supermicro CSE-731i-300B cases. Though they’re significantly larger than I need, they’re inexpensive for the features. The only modifications I made: I cut an intake hole adjacent the hard drive cage for an 80mm Noctua NF-R8 fan, populated the front intake location with another Noctua NF-R8 fan, and replaced the stock 92mm fan with a Noctua NF-B9. The Noctua fans are all rated for 150,000 hours, and are quiet.