Re: Low cost, energy efficient home pc server?

["Robert La Ferla" <user=1215@nabble.blu.org>]

 Thanks.  I should note that the drives are in an external powered   
case.  Therefore the case and power supply can be small and hopefully   
power efficient. 

On Aug 4, 2008, at 9:37 PM, Ben Eisenbraun wrote: 

> On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 07:40:02PM -0400, Robert La Ferla wrote: 
>> I'm looking for recommendations for a small energy efficient PC to   
>> be used 
>> as a home NFS server: 
> 
> Given your requirements, I'd just build one from parts on Newegg. 
> 
>> - Should run Linux 
> 
> That part is pretty easy these days. 
> 
>> - 2-3 PCI slots 
>> - SATA is a plus (especially if it can handle 4 external SATA drives, 
>> non-RAID is ok) 
>> - energy efficient 
>> - should be SFF (small-form factor) or mini-tower 
>> - VGA out 
> 
> I'd go with a micro-ATX motherboard.  You can find them with 4 SATA   
> and 
> onboard VGA and a couple PCI slots.  If you want eSATA, add in cards   
> are 
> fairly cheap, and some of the motherboards will come with an onboard   
> port. 
> 
>