| Stephen Gran on Mon, 7 Jul 2003 13:25:15 -0400 |
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On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 11:25:56AM -0400, Magnus said: > > On Monday, July 7, 2003, at 11:17 AM, Stephen Gran wrote: > > >I am writing because the 'something else' has not particularly > >been decided yet. My requirements are: > >basically noiseless (no case fans if possible) > >small footprint (smaller the better) > >low heat emission > >low power consumption > >(hopefully) low price > > Sounds like something based on a Via EPIA motherboard. You can > further reduce power consumption by using a laptop hard disk. That looks like exactly the kind of thing I've been looking for - thanks! The motherboards are even pretty cheap, which is nice. Do you happen to know anyone that sells complete models? If not, I'll just google around later tonight. > >Disk speed may be more important than processor speed, although even > >that isn't that important - on a busy day, the mail server might > >handle 2000 messages or so (OK, call it 4000, because of the doubling > >caused by spamassassin). > > Which is next to nothing. Laptop hard disk will cost more and run > slower but use less juice. Note that for awhile I was using a modern > laptop HD for video editing so if it is fast enough for that, it is > fast enough for a light duty server. That was about what I figured - thanks for confirming it. > These boxes are well supported by various free OS's including Linux > and *BSD. Better and better. Something to put on my wishlist and to-do list. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | Let's call it an accidental feature. - | | steve@lobefin.net | -Larry Wall | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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