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NetBSD Powered iSCSI Accesible Appliance Released

Posted by chrisd on from the wasabi-makes-fish-taste-good dept.

hubertf writes "TeamASA and Wasabi Systems cooperated to bring out a new "Personal Internet Network Attached Storage/Server" which runs on a 733MHz XScale CPU, does LVD SCSI and Gbit Ethernet with AppleTalk, Samba and most interestingly iSCSI to access the system. And of course this runs on NetBSD! Check out the appliance's web page." Looks like a really nice box.

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  1. Re:Xscale Vs. Pentium+ by questionlp · · Score: 5, Informative

    An XScale processor will run at very low power, even compared to most ultra-low voltage Pentium II/III processors and much lower than Pentium 4 processors. Also, the XScale processors include a lot of logic built-in so that it doesn't need a full northbridge/southbridge (which adds to the power consumption and board space).

    Also, in most cases, you can run an XScale processor without any active cooling... a basic heatsink (or none at all) should do the trick. Again, that shrinks down the overall size of the device.

    Also, in those kind of embedded devices, you don't need a processor with an FPU... instead, you just need code that is optimized for the specified purpose.