On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Sandy Harris <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Rob van der Hoeven > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Last week i build a new Intel Pentium system that is very energy > > efficient. Idle power consumption is just 23 Watt, max power consumption > > is 53 Watt (no graphics). It can be used as a FreedomBox server/general > > purpose PC or both... > This uses the phrase 'energy efficient' in a way I'm not familiar. The dreamplug boxes draw 5w. What phrase can be used to distinguish the two? > > For such a server I would look at solid state disk -- much lower power > than hard drives, but higher cost per gigabyte and for a FreedomBox > difficulty in erasing it completely may be a concern. See a previous > thread here for discussion. > > I'd also look at Intel's Atom line of low-power CPUs: > http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/atom/atom-processor.html > Those get CPU power usage down under 5 watts. > > Wikipedia lists Via Nano and AMD Fusion CPUs as Atom competitors. > Those might also be an alternative. > > _______________________________________________ > Freedombox-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss > -- Dave Täht SKYPE: davetaht US Tel: 1-239-829-5608 http://www.bufferbloat.net
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