** Andrew Seyes <andrew.se...@gmail.com> [2010-01-22 12:53]: > I have been looking for a low power server to replace an old machine I > run at home (a pentium II running hardy). In my search I came across > the Aleutia T1 fanless PC [1] which seems to fit the bill and comes > with Karmic pre-installed. > > I wondered if anyone on the list has any experience of this machine or > has any other recommendations for a low power server. ** end quote [Andrew Seyes]
I've got a 'low power' server running. I've put that in quotes since it isn't as low on the power consumption side as some of the others mentioned, but then it has likely got a bit more in it. I was given a 48U rack a while back with 5 2U server units in, but when I looked at power consumption found that they would have cost a fortune to run as they draw around 175W (iirc). I couldn't see a practical means of lowering that since it seemd that the majority of the power use was from the twin Athlon MP2000+ processors and removing fans, etc. didn't make much impact. That was a bit of a shock given that the server I was replacing was only consuming around 47W (based on a Celeron 533). What I ended up doing was building up a new server on the, then just released, Atom 330 board from Intel. The chipset draws abit more than ideal, but it still managed to up my performance whilst dropping my power usage. I think I'm around the 40W or less, which is nowhere near as low as others mentioned, but that does give pretty nice performance with the dual core Atom and 2G RAM, along with twin 500G IDE drives running a software RAID mirror on a PCI card (I already had both, so saved the cost of SATA drives) and a DVD-RAM drive for backups. This lot runs Exim, Dovecot, Apache, BIND, DHCP, SAMBA, SSH, MySQL, etc. without breaking a sweat. With a bit of investment I may be able to tweak that down a bit, but not by enough to recoup the cost in a sensible time frame. Some of the newer low power boards on the way with the better chipsets should improve things too - for when I next upgrade. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 ====================================================================== Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7 6NU -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
