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Re: Low cost, energy efficient home pc server?



 
On Aug 29, 2008, at 5:32 PM, Derek Martin wrote: 

> I was following this thread with some interest.  I want to build a 
> cheap, low-power server for my personal use also.  I was wondering how 
> it was working out with the Shuttle...  Though to be honest, I never 
> did like the cube-style PC case.  I was hoping to find something 
> with a form factor similar to the Dell Optiplex 755 for around the 
> same price as the shuttle... :)  I have thusfar only spent a small 
> amount of time looking, due to a general lack of free time, but didn't 
> find anything.  If folks have had good luck with the Shuttle, I may 
> consider that more seriously. 

The Shuttle KPC is working out great.  I have several of them now   
running as dedicated servers for dedicated tasks (Asterisk, NFS,   
etc...)  Foresight and conary took some time to get used to but I have   
it configured they want I want them.  I have not measured energy usage   
yet. 




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