Re: (OT) low-power home server
On Sat, Mar 15, 2003 at 12:20:22PM +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
> For a long time now I've been using an old Pentium 75 as the
> "headless mail server/firewall/gateway" (running Woody) in my
> home, and it works very well.
>
> The only problem is that it is old and I wonder what to replace it
> with if it dies.
>
> Ideally I would like to have a new box to replace it, which should
> be small and silent, and consume as little electricity as
> possible; but it does not need to have "high end" specs at all. It
> does not need to be fast, nor have lots of memory (the old Pentium
> works fine with 16 M), and 1 gig of disk space would be more than
> enough. No sound needed, no video (in principle), but of course it
> should have room for 2 NIC's.
>
Try looking for a laptop with a broken LCD. You'll get low power
consumption, and a built-in UPS. The only gotcha would be finding
PCMCIA NICs which use external dongles so you can stick two of them at
a time in the laptop. Of course, if you get a laptop with a built-in
NIC or USB this wouldn't be an issue.
dt
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