As some of you may know, I’ve been running a 24/7 box in my room that provides me with a unified messaging service (fetchmail/dovecot) and acts as a NAS for me. As my parents visited this weekend and needed to sleep somewhere, without the constant (yet silent) sound of a machine running, I turned the box of. It’s a good old AMD Duron 650 that was bought in 2002 (I think) and has been always on since about 2005. Thats four years of current running through the board. As you can guess, when I tried to turn it on again in the morning, it just didn’t come up (random hangs). Well, the elcos don’t look to healthy anymore, too. So, rest in peace little duron *sniff* we had a good time together (about 98% uptime).

So long, I put the RAIDed harddisks into another machine which is running my mail service now and just bought a pretty cool new board: Foxconn 45CSX, one of the few fully passive Atom 330 boards :)

Let’s see if I can get wattage down. In a year or so, the new board should pay out.