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

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

On Wed, 2017-12-06 at 11:49 -0800, Tony Godshall wrote:
> ...
> >> 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.

Try "NC365T" as your search term.

> ...
> >> 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.

I meant _durability_ comparison.