I just built a homeserver that pulls 62 watts from the plug at idle for ~$700. I had some of the parts lying around but even if you bought everything at frys you should be able to set yourself up for under 1K for the next 3-5 years.
Seasonic 80 plus 300 watt power supply Intel DP35DP motherboard (onboard nic is an intel, has 6 sata from ich9) E5200 Wolfdale processor (5 watts at idle, 30 watts at load) 4 x 1TB Samsung EcoGreen 5400 rpm harddrives 4GB ram 80GB laptop harddrive I had lying around for the system disk Ati PCI 9200 video card I had lying around (pulls 2-3 watts) Cheapest mid tower case off newegg with free shipping The samsung drives are great, they don't ever spindown. I had problems with some seagates a year or so back where the drive firmware would spin them down after 90 seconds of inactivity. The samsungs just chug along at 4-5 watts each. I use raidz on the 4 1TB drives and set copies=2 on the system drive. The real power savings is from the cpu. Any dual core 45nm intel chip idles at unbelivably low wattage. Add the 5400 rpm drives and you've got a nice cool running, quiet, low power system. If I only needed 1 TB I'd probably use the atom board with the two ports and a usb jump drive for the system disk, but I needed more space. Daniel On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 2:51 AM, Peter Bridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > Same case and same idea :) I have 2 dampered drives already installed from > a previous project. Another 2 I pulled out to install into a qnap 209. > Ideally I'd return the disks and replace the qnap with this new single ZFS > NAS, although I'm quite fond of the qnap bt client, and can't use all four > SATA with this board anyway... > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >
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