Smiley Dan;203971 Wrote: > The only real solution is something lightweight and dedicated... and > really that cannot mean a Windows operating system. A minimal Linux > installation onto a fanless Epia box may be a useful way to go, for > instance... Not necessarily. My Slimserver (release 6.5.1) is running on the household general server, which is Windows 2000 on a 533MHz fanless EPIA (the slowest of all the mini-ITX systems), with just 512MB RAM. It has two 3.5" hard disks, and consumes about 40W. (If I were building it now, with bigger disks available, it could use just one disk, bringing power consumption down to somewhere around 25W).
This machine also runs an Oracle database (not high-throughput, of course!), Xitami web server, VPOP3 email server, two printers, and a sprinkling of other minor services. It never has any problems keeping two Slim clients (Transporter and SB2) happy. So you *don't* need a high-powered box to run Slimserver. -- cliveb Transporter -> ATC SCM100A ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cliveb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=348 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35492 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
