On 6/8/2012 12:03 PM, Moshe Katz wrote:
For small locations, I use refurbished Pentium 4 and Pentium D machines with a bunch of PCI network cards (often Intel dual-port, which can now be found cheap on eBay). It doesn't look (or sound) that same as a little embedded system but it's pretty dependable.
While these are decent enough boxes in terms of their processor power (enough to run some VPNs and whatnot at decent speeds), the whole P4 and P-D line are very power hungry in terms of their CPUs.
So they're not horrible choices (Mine is running on a P4 right now), but they're not my first choice. Still, the upfront cost for these beasts is cheap, going newer enough to cut power may not be worth it.
I've tried a couple Atom based systems and had nothing but issues, primarily ACPI compatibility, so I've given up going that route and just stuck with the P4 until something better shows up.
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