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Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Rob Beard wrote: > >> Grant Sewell wrote: >>> Grant Sewell wrote: >>>> I've been mulling over this for a while now, and I'd appreciate some >>>> input from you lot on it. >>>> r >>>> Basically I'm looking to replace the box I've had running as an >>>> all-purpose 1-user homeserver. I've pretty much boiled it down to >>>> either a Debianised Buffalo HS-DH320GL 320GB Linkstation Live (ebuyer >>>> code: 139061) or one of those Viglen MPC-L boxes with an external USB >>>> harddrive. >>>> >>>> My thoughts on this so far as that the Buffalo, although it has a larger >>>> capacity it is harder to make it fully useful (ie Debianising it) and if >>>> there are problems with it, it is likely to be harder to troubleshoot, >>>> whereas the Viglen has less storage but can easily be expanded and it >>>> should be relatively trivial to Debianise it, since it can be used >>>> locally too it should be easier to troubleshoot if things do go wrong. >>>> >>>> I'd appreciate your input and experiences. >>>> >>>> Cheers. >>>> Grant. >>> Anyone got any thoughts? I'm still leaning towards a Viglen with bigger >>> harddrive. >>> >>> Grant. >>> >> Well it's probably one of the most low powered devices you can get that >> will run standard x86 code, other option I guess would be maybe a Via >> based MiniITX board or even an Intel Atom based motherboard (although >> IIRC it uses about 20 odd watts due to the power hungry chipset). > > I missed the original posting, but I build a lot of stuff around the VIA > fanless miniITX boards - My min. processor speed is 1GHz though. Power > consumption is 15W without disk drives and without any special > power-savings going on (lowering processor speed, etc.) > > http://unicorn.drogon.net/power.jpg > > (That system has a PCI telephony card and a flash IDE drive, so might be a > watt or so less without them) > > I suspect it's hard to get much lower with general purpose/commodity type > boards, so for really low power, recycle something else... I have a couple > of Atom based boards (270 and 330 chips), but not had a chance to put the > meter on them yet. (Curiously, it's not the processor that has the fan on > the motherboards!) > > Gordon > I'm going to have to get one of those power meters. I was talking to someone yesterday about the power usage on a P3-667 compared to my Phenom X4 and I'd love to see what the real power usage is and how they compare. Would one of the cheap £15 ones from B&Q be up to the job for this sort of thing? Rob -- 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