On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 14:45 +0000, Ivan Griffin wrote:
>> What about a Slug? You can blow away the stock firmware and install
> Debian. Has 266MHz XScale (ARM-like) processor 32MB RAM, 2 USB ports and
> an Ethernet port (10/100) and only consumed a few watts. Has a small
> (may ~1GB ish) internal flash, but you can use a flash key or a USB drive
> enclosure. Its cheap too - only 95euros.
>>http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=307213>> Some of the open source firmwares (e.g. Unslug, SlugOS) are tailored to
> running from USB Flash drive (i.e. /var/run, /var/log in RAM, noatime, no
> swap or swap on a different drive, etc.)
>>http://www.nslu2-linux.org/>
That reminds me, along a similar line, the Buffalo Terastation is
available as well, and easy to customise.
Still nice to have a RAID based low power server.
Have a look at:
http://terastation.org/wiki/Main_Page
I would get one if low end Dell servers weren't so ridiculously cheap at
the moment ....
Phil
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