On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 09:59:12PM +0000, Neil Ronketti wrote:
On 16 Nov 2008, at 16:15, Chris G wrote:
Well I have my low power[ish] PC put together now, I had a couple of issues while assembling it.
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By a strange quirk of fate, I was looking for a low power system, and have ended up ordering one of these:
http://www.trustedgoods.com/product_p/nslu2.htm
Mix it with this:
and a USB drive or two of your choice (I ended up with some Western Digital wotsit) and I'm hoping I should have a cheap linux server. If it turns out to be beyond me I can just use the drive & NSLU2 as a NAS, or for holding up the tank on the K100RS while I fix the chuffin' fule pump connector again.
I have a USB drive which, it turns out, consumes 20 watts all by itself. It's a Freecom 500Gb drive. So that rather spoils the idea of a low power system if you add two of them!
Errr, sorry. Completely missed the start of this thread, so I have no idea if the NSLU2 has been mentioned previously. Even so, if anyone wants one, the price on the site above is worth taking note of.
A d-i-y NAS was one approach I tried but it ended up not really being quite what I wanted and I decided an efficient (or reasonably so) 'normal' system would work better for me.