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Adam_151

Adam_151

Adam_151

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Planning on putting together a home server... however power consumption is a big issue... we use too much electricity as it is, ad we are going to be bringing that down by looseing the extra fridge/freezer in the garage (just bloody excessive!) and restricting dehumidfying to nights on the cheaper rate along with generally being careful whats left on...

anyway don't want to end up eclipsing the savings wer make there with a power hungry server, which brings us onto...

I was considering this: http://uk.asus.com/search.aspx?searchitem=1&searchkey=T2-AE1 with one stick of 512, a maxtor 320gig drive and a sempron 2800+ chip

Now is anyone able to give me an approx figure in watts for this? or speculate whether I'd see much difference if I tracked down a mobile athlon chip (they seem quite rare these days :confused: )
 
What do you need the server for? Does it need to be so powerful?

I have a Cobalt Raq3, which is a AMD K6-2 300mhz with 384MB of RAM and 2 x 20GB hard discs, which is perfect for just storing my music and making backups of my work... :)
 
Not really,

Its going to start off as a basic file server, and eventually hopefully It'll act as a domain server for the desktop pcs and do things like roaming profiles, I also would like it doing mail, and I'd probably end up having it have FTP and www servers on it as well.

I don't know what the modern distributions of linux need in terms of specs these days... I was planning on putting something like suse on it I guess and playing around with samba (I've heard that it is quite flexable and can do the whole windows domain server things)

Would prefer it SFF and I guess finding anything less modern in SFF would be not that easy? also older machines might have trouble with a 320gig drive?
 
Adam_151 said:
I was planning on putting something like suse on it I guess and playing around with samba (I've heard that it is quite flexable and can do the whole windows domain server things)
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It can do it as well as NT4 can. Active Directory was introduced in Windows 2000, and they haven't really got the hang of that yet.
 
for software i would go with slackware running samba and the Lisa deamon over a windows box i have a p2 300 running with 2x100gb hdd running in my loft as a file server i havent had to turn it off in nearly 3 years it rocks :)
 
We have a home network, and it would be nice to have commonly used files stored in a central location instead of on different computers which may not be one, and then duplicate copies just in case on others which have to be kept upto date, etc

Also it'd be nice to have some level of roaming profiles and own mail server etc
 
As an idea you could run a file server on one of those low power noiseless via epia motherbaords with linux / samba.
 
I have a via epia 800mhz server. They are great. with a simple fan speed adjuster the cpu fan is running silently, and it has a passive 60W PSU and a solid state 6gb HD. 100% silent and a 6gb hd should be enough for a mail server and a few important documents... Mime is just an ftp cache atm for overnight downloading.

Also according to the power consumption thingy linked above it uses up 16Watts :p
 
Not sure if you want to follow my idea but I was planning on building myself a file server which I can still just shutdown at night. Will it be on 24/7? My server would be in my room and I also have the same problems with energy consumption.
 
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