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 (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 > I forgot to mention that the netbooks only come with one ethernet port, so I am using a USB to Ethernet adapter which works fine. They sell for $6.82 on monoprice.com and work fine. It also great that the netbooks have a low power screen which is disabled by closing it.
>> >> 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
