I hear you. Doug.
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 08:39:09PM -0500, bofh wrote: > Dude, > > I used to have a stack of proliants, and I agree with Nick. Prolaint > bios was... Special. > > If you really want a low power cpu, get one of those c7 cpus, put it > in an aluminium case, and you don't have to worry about all those > issues that nick and others brought up. If you're worried about this > affecting your wife, the radiation is inverse squared or inverse power > of 4. The C7 is as low power as those PPros you're looking at, or > possibly lower. > Certainly all the other equipment you're going to put in - HD and > power supply are better performing when new - older stuff are prone to > leakage (old caps, etc). > > Another thing to consider - you can't look at single components, > you've gotta look at the whole system. Older proliant are not UL > certified for home use - ie, it leaks more EMR. Additionally. The > video, audio and scsi cards all produce EMR. With the C7 (check out > that $60 motherboard that walmart's selling), and a HD, you're done. > If all you're going to need is 300G, just get a 300G HD and you're > done - the whole system only has 3 components putting out EMR - > motherboard, HD, power supply. If you put that in a nice aluminium > case, and then ground that sucker properly, your wife should be happy > with you. Compare that with a heat producing, inefficient proliant, > with old CPUs that use more power (and hence, probably produce more > EMR), with additional components, video card, audio card, one boot > drive, one scsi/raid, one external case, additional (and expensive and > high EMR producing) HD - at 36G, you'll need 10 drives, and the scsi > backplane, I count at least 17 discrete components producing EMR, > including power supply for scsi box. > > I just don't see how it can be better for your wife. > > And don't forget the noise. Proliants are *LOUD* suckers. Generally > all servers are loud and will interfere with household appliances - > for you, this seems to include your wife, though if you call her a > household appliance, she might not be too happy with you :-) > > > > > On 2/8/08, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 03:03:31PM -0800, Lord Sporkton wrote: > > > All i can say is that i have a 1850R and a 5000, both of which run > > > wonderfully so far with OpenBSD, the 1850 is duel pII 450 and the 5000 > > > is quad pII 400, havent had a single problem so far. > > > > Did you have any trouble getting the software for setting up the scsi > > raid card? Can the raid card be set up as JOBD, i.e. if I want to start > > with just one or two drives non-RAID? > > > > Doug. > > > > > > -- > Sent from Gmail for mobile | mobile.google.com > > http://www.glumbert.com/media/shift > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk > "This officer's men seem to follow him merely out of idle curiosity." > -- Sandhurst officer cadet evaluation. > "Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or > internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks > factory where smoking on the job is permitted." -- Gene Spafford > learn french: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1G-3laJJP0&feature=related
