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I've been using a couple of VIA MiniITX machines for a while now. The last one was fanless and has been trouble free. It burns between 20 and 30W, depending on what it is doing. I use Gentoo on these machines as Ubuntu (which I use on everything else) will not work on the VIA chipset. I've got the second machine up in Manchester. I can rsync to this as a cron job overnight, so that all my data gets backed up off site. It is also very handy to ssh in remotely. These caught my eye recently, but I've not tried one. http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6395777363.html http://www.mini-itx.com gave good service, though they did send the wrong RAM chips first time, but replaced them. D On Friday 30 November 2007 17:10:32 Samuel Toogood wrote: > Greetings! It's my first post for a bit, but have been lurking all the > while. I'm thinking about making some purchases and I wanted to ask for > suggestions or advice as to whether this is sensible. > > Briefly, the situation is this. We live in a 2 bedroom flat and have a 6 > month old daughter. At the moment, she sleeps in the same room as us, > but we are preparing to move her to her own room. The room that she is > to move into is currently a study/spare room, and has my desktop pc in > it, plus various other bits of equipment/junk. We are going to have to > get rid (via eBay, freecycle etc) of the stuff we don't use, but we're > not sure where to put the desktop. As we barely use the desktop as a > desktop (we have two laptops as well) I was wondering about getting rid > of that too, and replacing it with a small box that can be left on all > the time, and can sit in a child proof enclosure (which we need anyway > for the wireless router). I quite fancy the idea of having a box I can > ssh (if ssh is a verb) back to whilst out and have access to data. > > Ideally, the box would have low power consumption and be silent, or as > near as possible. We already have a 500Gb USB external hard-drive to > use. Having done a bit of research, I've come up with a few options, but > would welcome any other suggestions. The options I've come up with are: > > 1. Buying a linutop box. > 2. Buying something like this: > http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=27#build-m61g > 3. (Bit more wacky) Buying an ASUS eeePC, and using the battery as a > poor-man's UPS, although as the hard drive needs a power supply, this is > a moot point. > > Does any of this sound sensible? > > Many thanks, > > Sam -- 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