From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 10 19:17:44 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 DC833CF6 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 19:17:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from be-well.ilk.org (be-well.ilk.org [23.30.133.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B313ADC7 for ; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 19:17:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lowell-desk.lan (lowell-desk.lan [172.30.250.41]) by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE1CF33C24; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 14:17:27 -0500 (EST) Received: by lowell-desk.lan (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 8F3F039848; Mon, 10 Nov 2014 14:17:26 -0500 (EST) From: Lowell Gilbert To: Chris Maness Subject: Re: Small/Low Power Server Recommendation? References: <20141110180538.GC25482@ws1> Reply-To: "freebsd-questions\@freebsd.org" Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 14:17:26 -0500 In-Reply-To: (Chris Maness's message of "Mon, 10 Nov 2014 10:16:33 -0800") Message-ID: <44ioimooft.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain 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 19:17:44 -0000 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, but I'll have to move my photo collection somewhere else. I've been running VIA motherboards for years, and they've done fine for me. The used laptop scenario isn't a bad idea, either; I know I've got one in the closet that only gets dragged out every year or two for network testing, and it would do that sort of job fine.