Nettop for router functionality

Question

network hardware

Hello. I'm a little confused in choosing a nettop.
Initially, it is conceived for the functionality of a full-fledged router + pleasant little things, for example, samba, torrent, it would be great to start xmbc on it. It turns out that something is preferable on ION, on tegra2 I have not yet seen nettops for sale. I want to hang all this on the Ubuntu server.
The question arises of the price, not ready to give a lot. Self-assembly will lead to the fact that I will significantly exceed the desired price :) Therefore, I am trying to choose a budget nettop. Maximum 7-7.5 thousand.
Can you advise something?

Answer 1

There is a completely budget option : a stolen switch (to enable vlans) + a hard drive stand (on some ARM). You can buy a switch for 500-600 rubles, a disc stand for 1500-2000. If desired, a wifi dongle is also added. On this it will be possible to make a router, a torrent downloader, an audio player (more + USB sound card), a doorbell and much more interesting things. Everything works under Debian GNU/Linux, although I don't see any reason why Ubuntu won't start. If you are interested in the details, I can tell you where and what you can buy, and how to set it all up later.

Answer 2

Under this, Atom will also start

Answer 3

You can try Acer Revo. But it costs an average of 12K. But, as far as I know, there Bf is a dual-nuclear atom with HT.

Answer 4

under such a price bracket, only ... 3Q

Answer 5

I think this is your client. Good luck!

Answer 6

I'll ask here as well.
I have WL-500gP v2. Through WAN masters a maximum of 60Mbit without VPN. Old, yes. If I replace it with something "atomic", will it be possible to pull out all 100Mbps?
Or are there routers cheaper than 4-5k that can do this?

Answer 7

Choose from Yandexmarket market.yandex.ru/search.xml?text=nettop&hid=91011&srnum=71&onstock=1&glfilter=6050883:6050899&glfilter=6050878:1
In
principle, 330 atom pulls almost 100 megabits.
To make several networks, there are two ways: buy usb
networks dlink.ru/ru/products/7/367.html
Or buy a switch and cut subnets into vlans.

Answer 8

The Intel Atom D525 works great, minus only 1 PCI slot.
It costs less than $100 + a case that tastes like $40-100
(oddly enough, the more compact the case, the more expensive)

Answer 9

#cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 28
model name : Intel® Atom(TM) CPU D525 @ 1.80GHz
stepping : 10
cpu MHz : 1800.058
cache size : 512 KB
#hdparm -i /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
Model=WDC WD3200AAKS-00B3A0, FwRev=01.03A01, SerialNo=WD-WMAT10423920
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec SpinMotCtl Fixed DTR>5Mbs FmtGapReq }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=50
BuffType=unknown, BuffSize=16384kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=625142448
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6
AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled
Drive conforms to: Unspecified: ATA/ATAPI-1,2,3,4,5,6,7
* signifies the current active mode
# hdparm -t /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
Timing buffered disk reads: 306 MB in 3.02 seconds = 101.41 MB/sec

Atom is a full-fledged 64-bit processor with 2 cores and 4 threads in terms of performance no worse than the top Pentium4 5 years ago. Thresher files are determined by the performance of the screws. Memory DDDR3 up to 4 gigs.
The bottleneck in the system will be the built-in 100 Mbps network card

Answer 10

By the way, it may make sense to assemble something on mini-ITX, it will take up more space, but you can also put several hard drives into it, put another network card ...
I'm waiting for something like this to be sold (ITX case for 6 drives ):