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On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Rob Beard wrote: > Grant Sewell wrote: >> Grant Sewell wrote: >>> I've been mulling over this for a while now, and I'd appreciate some >>> input from you lot on it. >>> r >>> Basically I'm looking to replace the box I've had running as an >>> all-purpose 1-user homeserver. I've pretty much boiled it down to >>> either a Debianised Buffalo HS-DH320GL 320GB Linkstation Live (ebuyer >>> code: 139061) or one of those Viglen MPC-L boxes with an external USB >>> harddrive. >>> >>> My thoughts on this so far as that the Buffalo, although it has a larger >>> capacity it is harder to make it fully useful (ie Debianising it) and if >>> there are problems with it, it is likely to be harder to troubleshoot, >>> whereas the Viglen has less storage but can easily be expanded and it >>> should be relatively trivial to Debianise it, since it can be used >>> locally too it should be easier to troubleshoot if things do go wrong. >>> >>> I'd appreciate your input and experiences. >>> >>> Cheers. >>> Grant. >> Anyone got any thoughts? I'm still leaning towards a Viglen with bigger >> harddrive. >> >> Grant. >> > > Well it's probably one of the most low powered devices you can get that > will run standard x86 code, other option I guess would be maybe a Via > based MiniITX board or even an Intel Atom based motherboard (although > IIRC it uses about 20 odd watts due to the power hungry chipset). I missed the original posting, but I build a lot of stuff around the VIA fanless miniITX boards - My min. processor speed is 1GHz though. Power consumption is 15W without disk drives and without any special power-savings going on (lowering processor speed, etc.) http://unicorn.drogon.net/power.jpg (That system has a PCI telephony card and a flash IDE drive, so might be a watt or so less without them) I suspect it's hard to get much lower with general purpose/commodity type boards, so for really low power, recycle something else... I have a couple of Atom based boards (270 and 330 chips), but not had a chance to put the meter on them yet. (Curiously, it's not the processor that has the fan on the motherboards!) Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html