Mine is modified similar to the Parkytowers one...
http://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/hp/t5740/mods.shtml
I use a 120Gb SSD with SATA cable - SSD end is straight connector and the motherboard end is right angle connectors.
HTH
Nigel.
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My T5740 has a 1.6GHz Intel Atom CPU, a 120Gb SSD and only just about gets warm to the touch (not very scientific, I know) and is reading data from my weather station and writing it to a MySQL db.
It then processes the data to produce images for the web (Apache) every few seconds for near real time output and it does this 24/7.I love my re-purposed thin client (it only draws around 11 watts and rises to 13 watts when processing data).
Nigel.
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@ DaWauZ - I use weewx for collecting weather data and some different 'skins' for web output
http://www.weewx.com/
Google groups for support
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/weewx-user
There has been some talk about energy monitoring within weewx as well.My weather station (due for an upgrade to a Davis Vantage Pro 2 soon - just need time to put it up!).
http://www.nthead.co.uk/weewx/index.html (standard weewx skin)
http://www.nthead.co.uk/Bootstrap/index.html (modified weewx skin)
http://www.nthead.co.uk/web/ (near real time output - move your mouse on the graphs and also watch the output change on the left side every few seconds as new data changes)
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/meso-userRuns headless Debian 7 and all the weather software is open source ;=)
Nigel.
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I also have some of this open source energy monitoring hardware to build one day (not enough hours in the day at the moment)
http://openenergymonitor.org/emon/
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My T5745 is running 24/7 and is connected to my weather station gathering data every 8 seconds.
It uses around 11 watts idling and 13 watts when it creates/updates images for the internal web server.
It has a single Crucial 120Gb SSD. -
oops, I linked to the wrong mSATA/IDE interface, it should be this (for 2.5 inch)
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/mSAT…pters&hash=item258fe5d247I have used this on another build but not on the T5745 - for that I used the direct SATA interface on the main board.
HTH
Nigel.
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I use this one
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/mSAT…pters&hash=item43cc268f33and also this
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2-5-…pters&hash=item233e3542d3Whenever I can I use a direct SATA on the motherboard.
Nigel.
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The expander does come up on eBay from time to time.
Nice build and similar to my SSD conversion of a T5745
Some great info on re-purposing thin clients here...
http://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/index.shtmlSo far I have a T5745 + 128gb SSD, a 10zig 1.6 Atom + 32gb mSATA and a T5325 1.2ghz ARM + 16gb mSATA - both mSATA conversions are with an IDE to mSATA adapter.
Most of this stuff is cheap on the 'bay nowadays.Next project is a mini iTX Atom board in an old Shuttle XPC case with 3 drives (OS on 1xIDE and RAID 1 on 2xSATA for data) plus OMV...
Nigel.