My always-reliable low-power Debian file-server died…
While it only had a 800MHz VIA C3 CPU and a MiniITX motherboard with 64MB of PC133 RAM, it was still capable of leeching/serving a 100Base network at LANs while burning DVDs and running an X display at the same time, and not trashing a bit (or burning coasters..) I also managed to cram inside three harddrives, an ATA133 controller, a new PSU, and all the ventilation to go with it over time. Its RhineII Ethernet controller was a PITA to get working reliably (mii-tool hacks required), and its video was too quirky to use acceleration with– not quite the “100% Linux Compatible!” as VIA and others (dansdata..) promised. :-P
No data was lost, with the drives just having plain ext3 filesystems that can be bunged into other machines simply enough (no RAID, LVM, etc., to bother with). Unfortunately none of the other small low-power systems I’ve got at the moment can handle three harddrives.
Its demise was somewhat my fault… It didn’t take to a stick of unidentified buffered SDRAM too well.