Allrighty then!
Over the past month and a half, due to the carboot season coming to an end I have been buying the odd bit of tech as I spot it at reasonable prices on eBay, Cash Converters, and the charity shops I visit.
Purchase 1
A Barracuda SSL-VPN 480 from eBay for less than £20
The motherboard is an MSI H61m-P25 matx board, and has Intel G850 processor, 2GB RAM, 2 x WD 500GB enterprise HDD and an 80plus Bronz flex atx power supply 20 pin only not 20+4
Purchase 2
My next set of purchases were an untested Joblot of 4 networking items for £22
The job-lot consisted of
1 x DrayTek vigor2860 (working and updated to patch their recent issues – serves as a quick backup router)
1 x Netgear GS105 switch – Works
1 x Dlink DGS1008 poe switch – unable to test – odd power supply required
1 x metal pink/red box with WAN LAN OPT labels (this is what caught my attention)
The metal pink/red box was what I thought it was – a PC Engines APU2 packing an AMD GX-412TC SoC (quad core, 4GB ECC Ram) now running OpenWRT serving as my firewall router and authoritative recursive ad-blocking DNS server server
Purchase 3
A visit to Cash Converters introduced me to a “not working” HP Elite Desk 800 G1 Tower (i5-4590, 20GB, ram, no storage) for £20 which was too good not to take a chance on
When home checked it out. I changed the CR2032, and removed the 4GB stick and reseated the 2 x 8GB sticks, added my test SSD (Debian) and after setting the date and time, it booted up without issues, all within 20 minutes of cleaning it up – I have yet to really do anything with this yet, but I will.
Purchase 4
Back to eBay for this purchase an ASRock J3455-ITX quadcore ITX board for <£15 to which I immediately added 16GB RAM – the CPU has an TDP of 6w!
I am aiming for this to become my new home server… soon
Purchase 5
Another eBay win this time for ~£21, a Mitac PD14R sporting a dualcore n3060 processor that came with 4GB RAM but upgraded to 16GB again a TDP of 6w
This I have used in the project that is the subject of my next blog entry