Home Server - power question

[Adam_151]

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 )

 

[Adam_151]

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]

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