On Sun, 3 Oct 2010, Chris Smith wrote:
On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Chris Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
Big thanks to everyone who replied to this thread. I've seen a couple
of people mention power consumption and it brought back some horrific
memories of explaining large electricity bills to my better half [1].
Not a Sun suggestion, but a general "I have weird old hardware"
suggestion: Get a Kill-A-Watt or equivalent in-line wattmeter. I imagine
they make a UK/Euro 220V version. At least then when you get a new
boatanchor you know how much it'll cost you to run.
I've scaled back my requirements to something which consumes less than
100W of power which eliminates most of the big end stuff. Going
through Sun docs looking at power specs now taking people's advice
into consideration.
With those specs I'll second the Netra T1 (105, AC100, really any of the
1U boxes) or even the U5/U10. I have a U10 as my firewall, and with a
newer hard disk (selected for power rating), and the CD and floppy
unplugged, it's 40-60W with the 440MHz CPU and 512MB RAM.
Also, generic CompactFlash to IDE adaptors will work in this machine so
you can dispense with the spinning disk and save more power, assuming your
application is read-mostly.
--
Jameel Akari
