RE: Re: Low power PC option

["Marcus Warrington" <marcus.warrington@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I've recently moved both my AudioServer (running Xlobby) and Server
(mainly running p2p, mIRC and reverse proxy for external access to TiVo)
to use 2.5" drives (60gig each) for their OS drives. I have all my
main
files (MP3's, Movies, Documents, Software) on a separate (5.25) NAS
(Linksys NSLU2), so 60gigs is plenty big enough for XP.



I got the drives for "free" and they are certainly quieter than
the
5.25" drives that I used before , they seem to have shaved some watts
off the power usage and  also run cooler.



On the Download server it even seems to have IMPROVED the responsiveness
of it , but that's probably more down to the really old drive it
replaced being slow and on its way out.



Eventual plan, is to build a Quad Core machine with a high efficiency
PSU etc and combine all these into one machine. Will have Xlobby running
on the native host (since it need the VGA output), and the fileserver,
ReverseProxy and p2p stuff  will all run on Virtual Machines.



Marcus

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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Andy Davies
Sent: 23 August 2007 10:02
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: Low power PC option



This is quite an interesting paper on server power consumption that's
been
doing the rounds lately:
http://csl.stanford.edu/%7Echristos/publications/2007.jsort.sigmod.pdf
<http://csl.stanford.edu/%7Echristos/publications/2007.jsort.sigmod.pdf>


And Storage Mojo's take on it:
http://storagemojo.com/2007/08/19/benchmarking-energy-efficiency/
<http://storagemojo.com/2007/08/19/benchmarking-energy-efficiency/>

Power consumption of 2.5" disks is quite interesting, pity they only
come in
small sizes...

On 23/08/07, Paul Bendall <paul@xxxxxxx
<mailto:paul%40lexfordparc.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
> I run Cortex on a Via Mini-ITX EN15000 MoBo. It has been running
> quite happily for well over a year. I have a Megawatt plug-in monitor
> and it consumes around 26W. No real heat either. As well as running
> Cortex it has the following:
>
> Windows 2003 Domain Controller
> Exchange 2003
> Slimserver 6.5.3
> SQL 2005
> Windows Update Sservie 3.0
> Printer Server
> DHCP
> DNS
> WINS
>
> Okay none of the above are heavily used but they are all used and I
> have had no problems with it. Would like slightly more memory but
> that is so I can run VMWare or Virtual Server. Really looking forward
> to the SN board being released shortly which allows 4GB of RAM.
>
> For a Node0 and central server I really don't see the need for a
> power-hungry CPU or MoBo.
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--
Andy

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