Le Fri, Sep 02, 2022 at 07:38:19AM -0700, Andy Ruhl a écrit : > Hello all, > > I've been running a NetBSD server on i386 for about 20 odd years, I > should go back and check when I actually started it. I sort of > accidentally upgraded it to amd64 a while back but it worked. > > Anyways, it seems like time to move to something else, maybe lower > power if possible. > > I found this which is very interesting: > > https://blog.netbsd.org/tnf/entry/making_rockpro64_a_netbsd_server > > Using a 128gig internal MMC would be plenty for OS and some local > storage then I would add some other disks, possibly SSD. > > Looking for other ideas if anyone has any.
I use this with NetBSD: https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A20/A20-OLinuXino-LIME2/open-source-hardware It has even a SATA port (but you can only power a 2.5" disk since it provides only 5V power; if you want a 3.5" you need probably an enclosure with power supply). The board takes 5V and consums up to 0.650A; if you add USB devices (2.0), you can add, at worst, 0.5A per device. I use it for a GIS server, with low trafic, and since it is mainly vectorial stuff, only an USB key as storage with some tens of GB is needed. I have just made these days the computation of the energy needed (with the configuration, the programming and its use for now: mainly it processes files on a daily basis to update maps and databases, producing even xlsx files, but via a cron job called once at end of working day) and it consumes only 30kWh / year... -- Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com> http://www.kergis.com/ http://kertex.kergis.com/ http://www.sbfa.fr/ Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C
