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Author: Tim Brocklehurst
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Suggestion for low-power file server to run at home
For really low power, how about one of these:
http://www.embeddedarm.com/products/arm-matrix.php

I got a TS-7550 in January and from the little I've played with it so far it's
a lovely piece of kit. They all run Debian as standard, so you can mix
services to your preference.

Tim B.

On Saturday 12 March 2011 21:36:36 Simon Reap wrote:
> On 11/03/2011 21:33, Pierre Cazenave wrote:
> > I've found the Fit-PC range [0] to be quite well suited to this. The
> > original had an AMD Geode processor clocked at 500MHz with half a gig
> > of RAM.
>
> 275 pounds minimum for the a new non wi-fi one? For the same CPU and
> memory as your old one,with an 80GB hard disk, you can get the MPC-L
> [0]. which happily runs Ubuntu 10.04.1 (though not later Ubuntus), and
> (probably) still costs 79 pounds if you mention the Ubuntu UK podcast
> [1] (listen to the Series 1, Episode 11 for details [2]). Mine's
> running apache, sshd and SAMBA, and my CurrentCost to an rrd database.
> It maxes out when running get_iplayer and rrdtool at the same time, but
> ploughs on regardless and still serves files to other clients happily.
>
> Simon
>
> [0]
> http://www.viglen.co.uk/viglen/Products_Services/Product_Range/Product_file
> .aspx?eCode=XUBUMPCL&Type_Info=Description&Type=Desktops [1]
> http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org
> [2] http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/page/28/
>
>
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