OT: Lowest-power small server solutions

[Tim Shoppa]

Huw Davies <huw.davies at kerberos.davies.net.au> wrote:

>
> On 02/11/2005, at 8:52 AM, Pete Turnbull wrote:
>
> > FWIW, I think Tim's suggestion (mini-ITX) is amongst the best.
>
> A good choice if you want to use something new. I used to use an old  
> Digital Multia (alpha based) running Linux to do this sort of thing.  
> Quiet and certainly on topic. For something more recent perhaps one  
> of the HP/Compaq "Windows terminal" devices that are supported with  
> Linux. ISTR these are StrongARM based.
>
> Huw Davies           | e-mail: Huw.Davies at kerberos.davies.net.au
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Keep in mind that for me (and many others) the mini-ITX isn't
just a suggestion, it's an implemented solution that's hosting
hundreds of GBytes of web content/mirrors on a few dozen virtual
domains and also mail/mailing-list stuff.

While the Multia isn't the most power-sucking computer out there
(it's really quite good) it cannot beat the 25W that the mini-ITX
server draws.

For contrast (and some on-topicness) the mini-ITX server replaced
an Alphaserver 2100 with two 7-drive RAID arrays.  And it has much
more CPU and disk space than that box did too, while drawing about
one-thirtieth the power.  I do not at all miss booting the 2100 into
Windows NT just to configure the EISA RAID controllers!

Tim.