[LINK] "Green" servers

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Richard Chirgwin wrote:
> 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?

The purpose of servers used to be centralised secure storage. Guess you can 
redefine anything.

> 
> 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
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