[LINK] "Green" servers

[Richard Chirgwin]

You're right ... checking the specs, I find that disk storage is 
external, which would wind back some of the benefits; the max internal 
is an 8G flash.

Someone who's done this sort of thing could tell me: I guess you could 
use this as the server, accessing disks on the various PCs that exist 
around the home as storage?

RC

Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> Richard Chirgwin wrote:
>> Linkers,
>>
>> "Green" computing has come up on Link before, I noted with interest a 
>> story on The Register about low-powered servers:
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/27/small_data_center/
>>
>>> Witness the OpenMicroServer, which this week went on sale 
>>> <http://www.plathome.com/products/microserver/oms/index.html> to 
>>> North American folk. It's 9 inches by 4 inches by 1.3 inches. The 
>>> system has built-in Power over Ethernet and can run fanless at up to 
>>> 122°F over long periods of time. CRAC units need not apply. It also 
>>> sports a pair of Gigabit Ethernet ports, a 100Mb port, a pair of USB 
>>> ports and a pair of serial ports.
>>>
>>> The unit runs the SSD Linux operating system, which straps NetBSD 
>>> userland functions onto the Linux kernel.
>>>
>>> Okay, okay. We'll grant you that the system limps along on a single 
>>> 400MHz (AMD/Raza) Alchemy MIPS chip.
>> (etc)
>>
>> I'll be interested to see how this market plays out!
>>
>
> I couldn't see any mention of storage.
>
> Marghanita