Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Low Power Hardware

2013-01-16 Thread Giles Coochey
On 14/01/2013 15:03, Arun Khan wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 9:14 AM, SilverTip257 wrote: On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 8:12 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: On 01/13/2013 10:15 AM, SilverTip257 wrote: And it looks like their Atom E6xx CPU [0] supports Intel VT-x. [0] http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/embe

Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Low Power Hardware

2013-01-15 Thread Natxo Asenjo
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 12:30 AM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 1/14/2013 2:54 PM, Natxo Asenjo wrote: >> +1 on the setup. ,I have it with 10GB ram (I found out that this ram >> block: Corsair XMS3 CMX8GX3M1A1333C9 also works in the HP N40L, so in >> theory you could go to 16GB ram, 8GB cost me €30).

Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Low Power Hardware

2013-01-14 Thread John R Pierce
On 1/14/2013 2:54 PM, Natxo Asenjo wrote: > +1 on the setup. ,I have it with 10GB ram (I found out that this ram > block: Corsair XMS3 CMX8GX3M1A1333C9 also works in the HP N40L, so in > theory you could go to 16GB ram, 8GB cost me €30). yeah, I found out they could take 2 x 8GB about 30 hours aft

Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Low Power Hardware

2013-01-14 Thread Atopian
I would advise against using any cobalt hardware for anything even remotely useful anymore. Other than the R550, everything else is so old as to be ineffective. On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Natxo Asenjo wrote: > On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:03 PM, John R Pierce > wrote: > > On 1/14/2013 7:24

Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Low Power Hardware

2013-01-14 Thread Natxo Asenjo
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 10:03 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 1/14/2013 7:24 AM, Phil Dobbin wrote: >> Looking at the specs for N40Ls though put me off because they're rated >> at 150W. Or am I missing something here? > > that may be the PSU rating, but 55W active is more typical, and thats > with 4

Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Low Power Hardware

2013-01-14 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 01/14/2013 09:03 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 1/14/2013 7:24 AM, Phil Dobbin wrote: >> Looking at the specs for N40Ls though put me off because they're rated >> at 150W. Or am I missing something here? > > that may be the PSU rating, but 55W active is more typical, and thats > with 4 3TB 720

Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Low Power Hardware

2013-01-14 Thread John R Pierce
On 1/14/2013 7:24 AM, Phil Dobbin wrote: > Looking at the specs for N40Ls though put me off because they're rated > at 150W. Or am I missing something here? that may be the PSU rating, but 55W active is more typical, and thats with 4 3TB 7200rpm SATA drives. btw, those AMD Neo CPUs are no slouch

Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Low Power Hardware

2013-01-14 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 14.01.2013 um 18:47 schrieb SilverTip257: > On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Matt Garman wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 8:55 AM, SilverTip257 >> wrote: >>> I'm in search of some hardware that consumes a low amount of power for >> use >>> as a test-bed for Linux, various coding projects,

Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Low Power Hardware

2013-01-14 Thread Peter A
On 01/14/2013 11:20 AM, Matt Garman wrote: > Of course, with these "real" CPUs (compared to e.g. Atom), power > consumption will be much higher when loaded. But from what I've read, > the "real" CPUs are actually better in the long run, because their > computation efficiency is so much higher.

Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Low Power Hardware

2013-01-14 Thread Christian Pfarr
Maybe you have a look on my Serversystem, described on my Homepage http://itnoobz.org/?page=Server. Unfortunately in German :( It only consumes 28 W under high load. Works perfectly till 6 Months. Intel® D2500CCE inkl. Intel® Atom D2500 2x Kingston ValueRAM SO-DIMM 2 GB DDR3-1066 2x Western Digi

Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Low Power Hardware

2013-01-14 Thread SilverTip257
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Matt Garman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 8:55 AM, SilverTip257 > wrote: > > I'm in search of some hardware that consumes a low amount of power for > use > > as a test-bed for Linux, various coding projects, and LAN services. > > > > 1) Low power consumption (

Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Low Power Hardware

2013-01-14 Thread Lamar Owen
On 01/11/2013 09:55 AM, SilverTip257 wrote: > *** I'm curious if there's certain hardware that you folks are using and > fit all/most of my criteria. *** > It would be cool if they made a Raspberry Pi with dual onboard NICs, but it > still doesn't cut it since it takes SD cards and not a hard drive

Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Low Power Hardware

2013-01-14 Thread Matt Garman
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 8:55 AM, SilverTip257 wrote: > I'm in search of some hardware that consumes a low amount of power for use > as a test-bed for Linux, various coding projects, and LAN services. > > 1) Low power consumption (10-15W ... maybe 30W at most) > 2) Must run Linux without too much f

Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Low Power Hardware

2013-01-14 Thread Kwan Lowe
Doesn't meet all your needs, but you can find old netbooks for $200 or less. I've taken a couple from the laptop case and put it in a box. It accepts a laptop drive (I'm using a 90G SSD). You can add a separate NIC via USB. I'm running RedHat on them at the moment, but I assume CentOS would work ju

Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Low Power Hardware

2013-01-14 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 01/11/2013 02:59 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 01/11/2013 02:55 PM, SilverTip257 wrote: >> I'm in search of some hardware that consumes a low amount of power for use >> as a test-bed for Linux, various coding projects, and LAN services. > > I have a couple of HP MicroServers N40L's with 8gb o

Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Low Power Hardware

2013-01-14 Thread Arun Khan
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 9:14 AM, SilverTip257 wrote: > On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 8:12 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > >> On 01/13/2013 10:15 AM, SilverTip257 wrote: >> > And it looks like their Atom E6xx CPU [0] supports Intel VT-x. >> > [0] >> http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/embedded/hwsw/hardware/atom-e

Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Low Power Hardware

2013-01-14 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
On 1/14/2013 5:44 AM, SilverTip257 wrote: > Any ideas why KVM didn't work? KVM on atom ? Are you series? just wondering? for 5-15w I wouldn't try it. just run the proper services on this machine. There is no device which does everything you want. only the sata drive will consume more then the cpu+

Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Low Power Hardware

2013-01-14 Thread Arun Khan
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 12:32 AM, Leon Fauster wrote: > > it does not address all requirements but anyway :-) > this low power hw came into my mind http://pcengines.ch/alix2d13.htm > I held back my vote for PC Engines (memory, hard disk not met). The latest Soekris net6501 is a better fit; it m

Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Low Power Hardware

2013-01-13 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/13/2013 07:44 PM, SilverTip257 wrote: > Any ideas why KVM didn't work? No, like I said, I didn't spend much time on it. I mostly use them as routers, where KVM isn't a requirement. ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org

Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Low Power Hardware

2013-01-13 Thread SilverTip257
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 8:12 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 01/13/2013 10:15 AM, SilverTip257 wrote: > > And it looks like their Atom E6xx CPU [0] supports Intel VT-x. > > [0] > http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/embedded/hwsw/hardware/atom-e6xx/overview > > Before you get too excited, the board's firm

Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Low Power Hardware

2013-01-13 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/13/2013 10:15 AM, SilverTip257 wrote: > And it looks like their Atom E6xx CPU [0] supports Intel VT-x. > [0] http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/embedded/hwsw/hardware/atom-e6xx/overview Before you get too excited, the board's firmware is comBIOS, which is a Soekris-specific firmware that is desig

Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Low Power Hardware

2013-01-13 Thread SilverTip257
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 01/11/2013 06:55 AM, SilverTip257 wrote: > > I'm in search of some hardware that consumes a low amount of power for > use > > as a test-bed for Linux, various coding projects, and LAN services. > > I use the Soekris 6501 fairly extensive

Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Low Power Hardware

2013-01-12 Thread Gordon Messmer
On 01/11/2013 06:55 AM, SilverTip257 wrote: > I'm in search of some hardware that consumes a low amount of power for use > as a test-bed for Linux, various coding projects, and LAN services. I use the Soekris 6501 fairly extensively. It's available in a much smaller than 1U case, or 1U if you pr

Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Low Power Hardware

2013-01-11 Thread John R Pierce
On 1/11/2013 6:01 PM, SilverTip257 wrote: >>> it does not address all requirements but anyway:-) >>> > >this low power hw came into my mindhttp://pcengines.ch/alix2d13.htm >> > >> > > Alixes have AMD Geode CPUs so they're x86 > > they are 5 watts, which is great, and many of them have dual etherne

Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Low Power Hardware

2013-01-11 Thread SilverTip257
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 01/11/2013 03:12 PM, John Doe wrote: > >> I have a couple of HP MicroServers N40L's with 8gb of ram each; although > > You will have to add a NIC to get a second port... > > Most NIC's only need 1 port... :D > > > And you have an optional

Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Low Power Hardware

2013-01-11 Thread SilverTip257
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 2:09 PM, fred smith wrote: > > it does not address all requirements but anyway :-) > > this low power hw came into my mind http://pcengines.ch/alix2d13.htm > > Alixes have AMD Geode CPUs so they're x86 > I don't know anything about this company or its products, but I just

Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Low Power Hardware

2013-01-11 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 01/11/2013 03:12 PM, John Doe wrote: >> I have a couple of HP MicroServers N40L's with 8gb of ram each; although > You will have to add a NIC to get a second port... Most NIC's only need 1 port... :D > And you have an optional ILO card. yup > Only 2 slots available. it also only costs £90 a

Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Low Power Hardware

2013-01-11 Thread fred smith
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 08:02:36PM +0100, Leon Fauster wrote: > Am 11.01.2013 um 19:53 schrieb Bill Campbell: > > On Fri, Jan 11, 2013, SilverTip257 wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I'm slightly off-topic here, but it is somewhat CentOS related! > >> > >> I'm in search of some hardware that consumes

Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Low Power Hardware

2013-01-11 Thread Leon Fauster
Am 11.01.2013 um 19:53 schrieb Bill Campbell: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2013, SilverTip257 wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm slightly off-topic here, but it is somewhat CentOS related! >> >> I'm in search of some hardware that consumes a low amount of power for use >> as a test-bed for Linux, various coding pro

Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Low Power Hardware

2013-01-11 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013, SilverTip257 wrote: >Hello, > >I'm slightly off-topic here, but it is somewhat CentOS related! > >I'm in search of some hardware that consumes a low amount of power for use >as a test-bed for Linux, various coding projects, and LAN services. > >1) Low power consumption (10-15W

Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Low Power Hardware

2013-01-11 Thread Dale Dellutri
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 8:55 AM, SilverTip257 wrote: > Hello, > > I'm slightly off-topic here, but it is somewhat CentOS related! > > I'm in search of some hardware that consumes a low amount of power for use > as a test-bed for Linux, various coding projects, and LAN services. Google fanless pc

Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Low Power Hardware

2013-01-11 Thread John Doe
From: Karanbir Singh > On 01/11/2013 02:55 PM, SilverTip257 wrote: >> I'm in search of some hardware that consumes a low amount of power for > use >> as a test-bed for Linux, various coding projects, and LAN services. > > I have a couple of HP MicroServers N40L's with 8gb of ram each; althoug

Re: [CentOS] Off-Topic: Low Power Hardware

2013-01-11 Thread Karanbir Singh
On 01/11/2013 02:55 PM, SilverTip257 wrote: > I'm in search of some hardware that consumes a low amount of power for use > as a test-bed for Linux, various coding projects, and LAN services. I have a couple of HP MicroServers N40L's with 8gb of ram each; although they only have a dual core, and a

[CentOS] Off-Topic: Low Power Hardware

2013-01-11 Thread SilverTip257
Hello, I'm slightly off-topic here, but it is somewhat CentOS related! I'm in search of some hardware that consumes a low amount of power for use as a test-bed for Linux, various coding projects, and LAN services. 1) Low power consumption (10-15W ... maybe 30W at most) 2) Must run Linux without