[conspire] Measure Your Electrical Power Consumption at CABAL

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Sat Sep 12 09:54:21 PDT 2009


Quoting Don Marti (dmarti at zgp.org):

> Last desktop/server CPU, maybe.  But there are now
> some servers based on Atom.  This one will take 2
> 2.5in drives:
> 
>   http://supermicro.com/products/system/1U/5015/SYS-5015A-H.cfm?typ=H

Ooh, shiny!  The Realtek RTL8111C-GR gigabit ethernet chip could be a
problem with real operating systems, though.  It'd be annoying to have
to use up that PCI-E slot with a NIC card.  Intel Atom's an excellent
idea for home servers, anyway, and, yeah, 2 x 2.5" SATA drives would be
the way to go.





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