Bilbo was built during the process of retiring Tulkas. Much of what Tulkas had been used for was moved to, or was destined to be moved to, a NAS, But the NAS could not run the Windows based weather applications and I decided to shift those to a dedicated low power system so that those could run with as little disruption as possible (as they had on Tulkas). My solution was an Intel Atom based system. A signifigant issue was finding an ITX motherboard that still had a PCI slot to accomodate the Bolteck lightning detector card, which is tight fit.
Getting a functional RAID1 working on this system was a challenge. Enabling the on-board Intel Raid resulted in reboots occuring before Windows finished booting or all the startup programs had been loaded; PCI raid cards I had on hand did not work when plugged into the PCI riser card; an attempt at using a Silicon Image Sil 3132 based mini pci-e card resulted in a system that took up to five minutes to respond to a mouse click. An attempted mSATA solution failed while attempting to copy a disk image, which was later tracked down to a bad mSATA SSD. The eventual solution was Microsoft RAID, even though that meant a conversion to dynamic disks.
Another issue was not finding a "power on at power restore" function in the BIOS. This latter issue was eventually solved by disabling "ERP Function" in the BIOS (apparently this function is due to a EU directive and wholesale disables power on functions including WOL, WOR, etc.).
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