On Wednesday 09 January 2002 7:28 pm, kml@selresearch.net wrote:
> In message <B81AA27B.5084%ssartor@bellatlantic.net>Steven Sartorius writes
>
> >Shuttle has a nifty, cheap 'cube' system available
> >(http://www.shuttleonline.com/sv24.htm) which looks like it would be
> > perfect for a small firewall/router.  Everything on the spec sheet seems
> > to be OK with NetBSD but I'm wondering whether anyone has any firsthand
> > experience with one of these?
>
> Did anybody ever try one of these out?  I've been hearing that the
> VIA chipsets can be problematic, but other than that it sounds
> like it might be an interesting option for setting up demos in limited
> space...
>
> Thanks,

I've had a SV4, got a Asus Terminator (intel).

I find the SV24 suffers from major lacency problems, it's expansion is 
limmited at best & firewire was next to useless (using a firewire to SCSI 
device with a cd burner on the end & getting buffer underruns @ 2x, Sony VAIO 
FX201 fine at 16x) & is the only machine I've had heat problems with a maxtor 
HD (the HD gets all the air from the CPU draged over it). system performence 
wasn't even that good & feels like it's just been thrown together with the 
'well everything fits in according to the spec sheet' type attatude.

Asus Terminator is a much better buy though it is bigger & doesn't look a 
good, but effectifly has double the expansion (2x 5.25" & 2xPCI), system 
performence is startling compared to the SV24 (I guess it's due to the 
latency problems) & I'm, yet to have a problem with it.

Ani