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 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.
How many students are these servers supporting? There is actually quite difference between atom cpus, the I have a D510 server and an N280 laptop and the D510 is significantly faster for video encoding. I haven't looked at integer/logic type operations. _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
