From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 10 22:03:55 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7E0CA6A3 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 22:03:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from cosmo.uchicago.edu (cosmo.uchicago.edu [128.135.52.97]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 593F1210 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 22:03:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by cosmo.uchicago.edu (Postfix, from userid 48) id 5CA2ACB8C95; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 16:03:48 -0600 (CST) Received: from 128.135.70.2 (SquirrelMail authenticated user valeri) by cosmo.uchicago.edu with HTTP; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 16:03:48 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <47689.128.135.70.2.1415657028.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <20141110204338.6bd3da4c@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <20141110180538.GC25482@ws1> <44ioimooft.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <20141110204338.6bd3da4c@gumby.homeunix.com> Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 16:03:48 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: Small/Low Power Server Recommendation? From: "Valeri Galtsev" To: "RW" Reply-To: galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8-5.el5.centos.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 22:03:55 -0000 On Mon, November 10, 2014 2:43 pm, RW wrote: > On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 14:17:26 -0500 > Lowell Gilbert wrote: > >> Chris Maness writes: >> >> > On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Colin Barnabas >> > wrote: >> > >> >> The Raspberry Pi B+ would be hard to beat in terms of power >> >> consumption (500 mAh). Could comfortably run a web or file server >> >> (512 MB RAM) for a home >> >> business. Not sure on the state of FBSD ARM though, if you're >> >> intent on running FBSD on the thing. >> >> >> >> http://www.adafruit.com/product/1914 >> >> >> >> >> > I thought of that for a Linux server running JNOS, but I think I had >> > something more traditional in mind, so I could just restore the >> > dumps of the old server, and be up and running in short order. I >> > am currently working on my masters in physics, and spare time is in >> > short supply. >> >> Keeping a drive running dwarfs the power consumption of a small >> motherboard anyway. I would switch to an SSD for my own home server, > > The system would have to be *very* low power for that to be true. A > typical 2.5 inch drive intended for laptops uses about 0.7W just > spinning and <3W in constant use. Most home servers spend most of > their time idle, so even a desktop drive can average about 4W (even > without allowing it to spin down). > Just to add other options... I used these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16856102002 (but it is like barebone, you will need to add memory, mSATA SSD as storage to it, and you can add Wireless card as well). Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++