[lug] Low power servers.

[Bear Giles]

There's also a 'CuBox' coming out soon. Not 2 inches square, 4.3 ounces.

http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/cubox-pro-open-source-mini-pc-03-01-2013


On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Quentin Hartman <qhartman at gmail.com> wrote:

> oh! Another super small and low-power platform I've played with the past
> is Gumstix:
>
> https://www.gumstix.com/
>
> They've evolved a lot since last I looked and one of their options might
> be a good fit for you.
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 3:07 PM, Quentin Hartman <qhartman at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Gotcha, thanks for the clarification on your needs. In the playing I did
>> some years ago in the space you're talking about the only gotchas I ran
>> into were performance, both computational and throughput not meeting my
>> needs, and the time spent compiling a lot of the packages I wanted to run
>> because they weren't available in binary form for the platform. I could
>> have setup a cross-compilation config on a faster box to make that less
>> time consuming, but for the exploratory stuff I was doing it didn't seem
>> worth the effort.  The landscape is probably quite a bit different these
>> days though. I'd be interested to see responses from anyone else who has
>> played around with this stuff more recently.
>>
>> QH
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 1:37 PM, David L. Anselmi <anselmi at anselmi.us>wrote:
>>
>>> Quentin Hartman wrote:
>>> > What defines "low power" for you?
>>>
>>> I was thinking <20W, though not because I have any constraints.
>>>
>>> My current server (dual P-III) runs about 75W (perhaps 10W more if it's
>>> working hard).  Although
>>> cutting that is nice, getting rid of fans and old, noisy, hard drives
>>> will also be nice.  The main
>>> reason I care about power is just to avoid using more than I need.
>>>
>>> > http://www.logicsupply.com/products/vab_800
>>>
>>> I guess I didn't say but I'd also like a price tag around $100.  I
>>> definitely don't need video,
>>> audio, or keyboard.
>>>
>>> I don't need more than one Ethernet port.  Not really interested in wifi.
>>>
>>> I need something to connect storage, perhaps flash for the OS but not
>>> necessarily (the Sheeva did
>>> better booting from a flash stick than a hard drive).  But whether
>>> USB-2, USB-3, eSATA, etc I don't
>>> much care.
>>>
>>> I don't care whether the CPU is x86-ish or ARM.
>>>
>>> So mostly I'm asking whether anyone has experience making this work and
>>> any gotchas you've had with
>>> certain hardware.
>>>
>>> The web/mail server could probably run on a pi without any trouble (the
>>> Internet is likely the
>>> slowest piece by an order of magnitude).  The file server will be
>>> holding backups so throughput will
>>> be noticeable and more is better.  Looks like Ethernet will be the
>>> bottleneck, then USB2 if I
>>> upgrade to gigabit.
>>>
>>> Probably I can get by with 2 pis at this point and move the file server
>>> to something else if I don't
>>> like what it does.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Dave
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