A few weeks ago I asked buying a fanless, "no moving parts", low power
consumption server. I wanted to buy something that I can use to hold
critical data (CVS etc), be a nameserver, and be used for port
forwarding.
I was looking at various Atom based options.
After much asking, thinking and reading I settled down on this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856101096
Shuttle Intel Atom/D510 based slim, fanless PC.
For the hard drive, I bought this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167025
Intel 40 GB SSD.
I set it up with Ubuntu 10.04. The only problem was that Ubuntu did
not see its network interface and reported no network cards found. I
finally learned that the driver is called "jme", so after modprobling
it, the box has a network connection.
It does not see much of a load, as intended. It stays cool at 64
degrees C CPU, with maximum temp reported as 104C. It is fed with
power through a laptop style power brick.
Top sees four CPUs, but in reality the CPU has two hyperthreaded cores.
According to my own benchmark test (perl script that I wrote for
benchmarking single or multicore machines), it is very slow, 5 times
slower than my desktop, and two times slower than my 5.5 year old,
semi-retired webserver. That does not bother me a bit, as speed was
never a requirement.
I will try to find a couple of extra laptop style power supplies that
fit it, and hope that this server will last me many years.
This machine has no terminal, keyboard or mouse attached.
i
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