Comments on: A Brain in a Band-Aid Box http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7347/ Open Source, Open Standards Sat, 05 Oct 2013 13:48:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: evardsson http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7347/#comment-6507 evardsson Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7347/#comment-6507 I can see all sorts of consumer applications for this, including a setup with 4 of these in a tall tower, and raid array below pre-configured as a firewall, squid proxy, media/file server, and mail server (one server per Nano) or firewall, web server, mail server, media/file server, or, well, you get the picture.<br /> <br /> Any chance that Dell would offer something like that if enough people made noises? I can see all sorts of consumer applications for this, including a setup with 4 of these in a tall tower, and raid array below pre-configured as a firewall, squid proxy, media/file server, and mail server (one server per Nano) or firewall, web server, mail server, media/file server, or, well, you get the picture.

Any chance that Dell would offer something like that if enough people made noises?

]]> By: three_jeeps http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7347/#comment-6508 three_jeeps Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7347/#comment-6508 I came to the same conclusion a few years ago. I operationalized it in a slightly different way...I needed a fax/email gateway to replace an aging fax machine. It only consumed 4w in standby, so that was my target. No way could any of my rack or boxed PCs come close to that. I picked up a few Artigo boxes with a VIA Pico-atx board containing a 1.5 GHz processor and support for 1GB. Added a HD, Ubuntu server, and Hylafax. Power draw is about 8W. The next logical step was to load Apache and VH two websites that I support.<br /> Works like a charm, and average power has increased a bit to about 10 W due to the HD spinning more..Its not commercial grade, but it shows the point that single core, low power devices have a place and should be considered for these types of apps. I came to the same conclusion a few years ago. I operationalized it in a slightly different way…I needed a fax/email gateway to replace an aging fax machine. It only consumed 4w in standby, so that was my target. No way could any of my rack or boxed PCs come close to that. I picked up a few Artigo boxes with a VIA Pico-atx board containing a 1.5 GHz processor and support for 1GB. Added a HD, Ubuntu server, and Hylafax. Power draw is about 8W. The next logical step was to load Apache and VH two websites that I support.
Works like a charm, and average power has increased a bit to about 10 W due to the HD spinning more..Its not commercial grade, but it shows the point that single core, low power devices have a place and should be considered for these types of apps.

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