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Re: [LUG] Small low power server

 

I considered one before I got the linkstation. The thing that swung it
for me is the nslu2 has 32 megs ram (or so i read somewhere) and the
linkstation has 128. on the other hand, i think it worked out a bit
more expensive.

On Dec 11, 2007 11:44 AM, Dan Prisk <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Friday 30 November 2007 17:10:32 Samuel Toogood wrote:
> >>> 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.
> Have you looked at the Linksys NSLU2? I'm using one of these at the
> moment for my file / general server. I'm really pleased with it: low
> power, small size and no noise. It's not hugely powerful, but when
> combined with Debian it becomes a really useful little tool.
> http://www.nslu2-linux.org/.
>
> Dan
>
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