Re: [LUG] Small low power server

On 30/11/2007, Samuel Toogood < sam_toogood@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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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

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