OT: Lowest-power small server solutions

[Scott Stevens]

On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 21:55:29 +0000
Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Pete Turnbull wrote:
> 
> > FWIW, I think Tim's suggestion (mini-ITX) is amongst the best.
> 
> I suppose it depends on how much is available to spend - used Suns and 
> the like can be had for free, versus a certain amount for a mini-ITX 
> board (I've not found people throwing out the latter just yet, although 
> give it a couple of years...)
> 

When people start throwing out mini-ITX boards it will be because they have 'expired' as they are commodity-PC stuff and not built-to-last.  A Sparc IPX that is ten years older then them will still be chugging along, most likely.

> Mind you, I suppose it's harder to find extra NICs for a 
> Sun/SGI/whatever versus a PC...
> 

I got several Sbus ethernet cards for the price of shipping and a little bit from a list member here recently.

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