[LINK] Leave on, or turn off?

[Adam Todd]

At 02:15 PM 30/11/2006, Kim Holburn wrote:

>About 5 years ago I and a colleague installed a group of servers with
>no moving parts at all.  Mini-ITX systems with OS on flash memory, no
>fans.  They are still working perfectly.  We have had one power
>supply failure in that time and a couple of them are getting a little
>underpowered as needs grow but that's it.

Hey I'm looking for something like that right now.  Any ideas?  I've 
exhausted my research and found nothing useful at all :(

I just need some nice low end (pentium) fanless boards!

>Getting rid of fans is the key, it's also the key to having any home
>servers that are bearable to share a house with but it's getting
>harder with modern CPUs.

Yes shutting down 8 servers here in the last 12 months has really quieten 
the office a lot!  Getting rid of the desktops helped too!

Also 2.5inch drives are a lot quieter than most 3.5 inch drives, although I 
have some 3.5's on my desk using USB converters that I forget are even 
on.  (Not a good thing as they aren't in cases!)