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 chipset (both upfront and on power > consumption). > > The schools in question are probably less than 200 students each, so I'm > guessing an Atom processor will be ok? > > 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 brick (35W with a no-name desktop > power supply!). Is anyone running a schoolserver with one of these? How > many students is it good for?
Tom 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 cost about $325 after hard drive upgrade. They consume about 10W. They of course do have fans, and it will be some time before I can give you a reliability report. They are being used in a dry (almost desert like) area of Kenya, and they are in a mud wall building with a metal roof that stays fairly warm ~90 F. So far, so good. This is not "recommended" hardware per se, but it is cost effective and low power. I had some minor work to get the ethernet NIC to work (add a driver), and a quick modification to the /boot/grub/ menu.lst file so that the screen brightness would work on the Asus. Let me know if you are interested or have questions. Andy > > The smallest cases don't take a PCI card (low profile or otherwise) so > the second ethernet port is still a problem. This > http://www.bvm-store.com/ProductDetail.asp?fdProductId=547 might work I > guess? > > _______________________________________________ > Server-devel mailing list > Server-devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
