[Freedombox-discuss] Energy efficient Intel server

[Dave Taht]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Sandy Harris <sandyinchina at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Rob van der Hoeven
> <robvanderhoeven at ziggo.nl> wrote:
>
> > Last week i build a new Intel Pentium system that is very energy
> > efficient. Idle power consumption is just 23 Watt, max power consumption
> > is 53 Watt (no graphics). It can be used as a FreedomBox server/general
> > purpose PC or both...
>

This uses the phrase 'energy efficient' in a way I'm not familiar.

The dreamplug boxes draw 5w. What phrase can be used to distinguish the two?


>
> For such a server I would look at solid state disk -- much lower power
> than hard drives, but higher cost per gigabyte and for a FreedomBox
> difficulty in erasing it completely may be a concern. See a previous
> thread here for discussion.
>
> I'd also look at Intel's Atom line of low-power CPUs:
> http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/atom/atom-processor.html
> Those get CPU power usage down under 5 watts.
>
> Wikipedia lists Via Nano and AMD Fusion CPUs as Atom competitors.
> Those might also be an alternative.
>
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