[conspire] Zotac and Shuttle and Asu, oh my (durability)

[Tony Godshall]

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>> I ended up getting a refurb HP t730 Thin Client with a 16GB M.2 drive
>> for close to what I would've spent on an APU2 for gateway/router use,
>> and I put a $20 quad Intel 350 NIC in its slot, because the onboard is
>> Realtek.

Nice, what's the source?  I could use some of those but I'm not seeing
them for less than $40 on amazon or ebay.

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>> The much larger L2 cache than the APU2 has can come in very
>> handy if I have the thing running any crypto, but it seems to idle at
>> 17W on the Kill-A-Watt, which isn't great for an always-on device, but
>> it could be a lot worse. Fanless would've been nice, but barring the
>> APU2, I would've had to compromise too much. Thoughts on these in
>> comparison to the Zotac and Shuttle units?

The two I mentioned are fanless.  I'll do a power check when I get a chance,
but I'm running spinning media (SSHD), so I don't know if it would be a good
comparison.