Re: Got my new Home Server up and running..

["Paul Bendall" <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Reading the thread its gonna be about compromise. A fast CPU with
so=20
many features is going to draw so much power. How about reversing=20
the logic and working out the horse-power you realistically need?

Have a look at the new Via SN motherboard that is about to launch.=20
It is only 1.8Ghz CPU, but will take a PCI-x card, 4GB and 4 x=20
SATAII ports. It looks feable from the specs in comparison to the=20
below but do you actually need all the features below?

The benefit of the VIA CPU range is they draw very little power, The=20
above SN board will use <30W.

Of course the other method is use a low power machine for most tasks=20
and a high power machine only when you need it and get the low power=20
machine to send out Magic packets to wake and sleep the high power=20
machine.

Paul

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "brougham Baker" <bro-yahoo@...>=20
wrote:
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> From: "Ian Lowe" <ianlowe@...>
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> Just got back from playing "Rock Band" on the PS3 at a
mates. It's=20
a laugh.
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> > well, it took a while planning, but I finally implemented my
> > replacement server for the house.
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> I'm at that point now- need to do some consolidation- my=20
electricity bill is
> over =A380 pcm for a two-up two-down.
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> > In motherboard terms, I wanted something with PCI-X support
(all=20
the
> > good raid cards seem to be PCI-X!) as well as VT support for=20
running
> > x64 VMs.
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> Me too
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> > I liked the look of ASUS' Professional Workstation range, and=20
chose the
> > P5WDG2-WS Pro - an absolutely kick-ass board with 7 SATA=20
connectors on
> > board, PCI-e, PCI-X and able to handle loads of RAM.
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> Good find that- may have to emulate you there.
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> > 4Gb of OCZ RAM (probably the first thing I'll upgrade)
finished=20
off the
> > Spec, along with a silent nvidia Graphics Card (with component=20
video
> > out - just in case!).
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> 2x 2GB or 4x1GB currently? I see this board has 4 slots.
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> > I experimented a bit with various OSes, and decided that for=20
this job I
> > wanted to use Ubuntu 7.10 - the maturity of the Linux Kernel
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just
> > amazing now, and it can do some pretty funky tricks - as I
found=20
out.
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> Yeah may be time for another penguin bash here- although I don't=20
trust ext3
> since it munched a whole partition- the drive still reports as=20
perfect.
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> > So, very cool technologies, big winners are the Quad Core proc
> > (amazingly quick), vmware server - all this, for free?, Ubuntu=20
7.10 and
> > Linux Raid
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> So any idea what the power usage is on this box? My 2TB store is=20
on a
> poweredge 2500 and uses just over 250w. I reckon is costs about=20
=A316 per
> month.
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> Bro
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