cliveb;203985 Wrote: > 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.
I, er, didn't say you did. I was just advising that maybe different platforms are advisable to run on lower power hardware. Nice setup you've got there though :) Personally I'd say you don't need a hard disk, storage should be compartmentalised too. -- Smiley Dan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Smiley Dan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5456 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35492 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
