Re: [Server-devel] Recommended tropical island XS hardware

2011-02-05 Thread Tom Parker
On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 23:18 -0500, Andra DuPont wrote: I have deployed two servers using netbooks. One is an Acer Aspire One 532h and the other is an Asus Eee PC 1005PEB. Both are using the Atom 450 processor at ~1.67 Ghz with 1 GB ram. I put 500 GB hard drives in each, which added $75. They

Re: [Server-devel] Recommended tropical island XS hardware

2011-02-05 Thread Andra DuPont
On Feb 5, 2011, at 5:01 AM, Tom Parker wrote: On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 23:18 -0500, Andra DuPont wrote: I have deployed two servers using netbooks. One is an Acer Aspire One 532h and the other is an Asus Eee PC 1005PEB. Both are using the Atom 450 processor at ~1.67 Ghz with 1 GB ram. I put

Re: [Server-devel] Recommended tropical island XS hardware

2011-02-04 Thread Dan Zubey
On 02/03/2011 04:31 AM, Tom Parker wrote: There are a few people building fanless no-name boxes based on the Intel D510MO motherboards. I'm running one of those very successfully as my own server, with a 3.5 harddrive it consumes about 25W when powered by a wide input PicoPSU and HP Laptop

Re: [Server-devel] Recommended tropical island XS hardware

2011-02-04 Thread Andra DuPont
On Feb 3, 2011, at 11:18 PM, Andra DuPont wrote: On Feb 3, 2011, at 6:31 AM, Tom Parker wrote: Is there a recommended school server hardware these days? We took EEE Boxes to Samoa and they seemed to do ok in the short time we monitored them. Their biggest downside is no second ethernet

Re: [Server-devel] Recommended tropical island XS hardware

2011-02-04 Thread Sameer Verma
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 3:31 AM, Tom Parker t...@carrott.org wrote: Is there a recommended school server hardware these days? We took EEE Boxes to Samoa and they seemed to do ok in the short time we monitored them. Their biggest downside is no second ethernet (you have to use USB) and you pay

Re: [Server-devel] Recommended tropical island XS hardware

2011-02-03 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 6:31 AM, Tom Parker t...@carrott.org wrote: Is there a recommended school server hardware these days? Not really, but the market is moving in the right direction. Thise fanless boxes you mention... The schools in question are probably less than 200 students each, so I'm

Re: [Server-devel] Recommended tropical island XS hardware

2011-02-03 Thread Andra DuPont
On Feb 3, 2011, at 6:31 AM, Tom Parker wrote: Is there a recommended school server hardware these days? We took EEE Boxes to Samoa and they seemed to do ok in the short time we monitored them. Their biggest downside is no second ethernet (you have to use USB) and you pay for the Ion