Re: (OT) low-power home server
On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 11:20, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
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> I should have thought that there must be a market for such a
> thing, with so many people running home networks, but so far I
> haven't found any suppliers of things like this. Maybe I haven't
> been looking in the right places. Any ideas?
There is no real point for this market. The lowest spec machine brand
new probably cost around £250(Probably around $250 in the US) without
monitor. With this as the price for a machine with probably 1.2Ghz,
512Mb RAM and 40Gb Hard drive - who wants to pay more than around£50 for
an old 500Mhz with 128Mb RAM .
If you skip the hard drive, you could probably save another $50 but I
wouldn't recommend this - the new harddrives are *very* big and *much*
faster.
Something else you can do is replace one of your other machines with a
new one and put that as the server - I did this a couple of times. Very
worthwhile.
HTH,
Shri
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