Move Over Mini-ITX, Here Comes The gigaQube

Posted by timothy on Friday November 14, 2003 @08:21PM from the product-before-its-time dept.

Jim Ethanol writes "Since there's been a lot of interest lately in Mini ITX based servers I thought the Slashdot crowd might enjoy checking out Project gigaQube. The gigaQube is a modified Cobalt Qube 2 server appliance with 240 Gigabytes of storage running NetBSD's Mips R5000 based Cobalt port. Cobalt Qube's are quiet, cool looking little (7.25 x 7.25 x 7.75 inch) servers that when modified, make a powerful home server solution. They also seem to have achieved 'fetish' status in Japan. See some gigaQube action shots here, or check its vitals here."

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More like Mini-ITX is a replacement for these... by jthorpe · 2003-11-14 20:40 · Score: 4, Interesting

The /. article mentions that this could be a replacement for Mini-ITX, but in reality, I suspect that you could use (with quite a bit of modding) a Mini-ITX in one of these boxes intead of the existing board.

A Mini-ITX would offer a nice replacement for the Mips-based CPU and dependence on old SIMM modules for memory.