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Martin Griffith

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Aug 18, 2007, 3:25:49 PM8/18/07
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I've always been interested in low power PCs, and found this.
http://librenix.com/?inode=11001
even a telnet game at the bottom of that page

Not exactly embedded, but 8 watts,

Just wondering if if there are other lower powered PCs around (cheap)
that can be recommended?


Martin

sleb...@gmail.com

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Aug 18, 2007, 6:29:33 PM8/18/07
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On Aug 19, 3:25 am, Martin Griffith <mart_in_medina@ya___.es> wrote:
> I've always been interested in low power PCs, and found this.http://librenix.com/?inode=11001

> even a telnet game at the bottom of that page
>
> Not exactly embedded, but 8 watts,
>
> Just wondering if if there are other lower powered PCs around (cheap)
> that can be recommended?

I'm running Debian on an NSLU2. It runs 5W typical (measured myself)
and is rated as 7W max. Since I use it as my main web and file server
running 24/7 I calculated that at USD $99 it pays for itself in about
18 months by saving electricity compared to a regular PC. Of course,
the external harddisk attached to it is itself consuming around 10W
depending on load. But 17W is still a lot less power consumed compared
to a regular PC. It's even lower than the power consumption of most
laptops.

sleb...@gmail.com

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Aug 18, 2007, 6:53:21 PM8/18/07
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Hmm.. it appears that their 8W rating is with hard disk. How do they
manage to get a hard disk to run on so little power? My Maxtor runs
quite hot, it idles at around 3-4W but with all my bittorrenting it is
rarely idle.

Of course, for the ultimate power saving I can simply run my server
from a thumb drive.

Philipp Klaus Krause

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Aug 19, 2007, 3:47:13 AM8/19/07
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sleb...@yahoo.com schrieb:

> Hmm.. it appears that their 8W rating is with hard disk. How do they
> manage to get a hard disk to run on so little power? My Maxtor runs
> quite hot, it idles at around 3-4W but with all my bittorrenting it is
> rarely idle.

Maybe they use a HDD made for laptops.

Philipp

Anthony Fremont

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Aug 19, 2007, 10:07:23 AM8/19/07
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I was going to order one ($99) til I saw that they want another $30 plus
shipping to another location. This just to "unlock" the device so you can
actually use the internal hard drive to install an OS, how pathetically
lame.
https://store.dataevolution.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=DT%2DA


Anthony Fremont

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Aug 19, 2007, 10:20:34 AM8/19/07
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Upon further investigation, it appears that this is no longer an issue. I
think I may get one to tinker with after all. I've never installed (or even
seen) Ubuntu Linux (I'm a Gentoo fan myself) so this might be fun.


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