[clue] Low power servers.

[Sean LeBlanc]

Speaking of Raspberry Pi, there is a talk tonight at Club Workshop/maker group that is about Raspberry Pi. 

On Nov 8, 2012, at 2:09 PM, Dan Kulinski <daniel at kulinski.net> wrote:

> I received a Raspberry Pi a week ago but it is going to drive my eventual 3D printer that I am working on with my son.  
> 
> Another friend has been looking at making a Pi into a NAS and here is what he and I have found:
> 
> The ethernet chip on the Pi is routed via the USB subsystem.  This means that you are sharing time between the Ethernet and any disk you attach.
> 
> Serving files directly from SD flash is pretty slow.  
> 
> If you can live with these limitations you are set.  If you would like to evaluate something please let me know and I can either loan you my unit or I can set it up for remote testing.
> 
> Dan
> 
> On Thu, Nov 8, 2012 at 2:04 PM, David L. Anselmi <anselmi at anselmi.us> wrote:
> So I want to replace the old dual-PIII server I have with something that uses less power.  A
> freedombox would be nice :-)
> 
> The server runs Debian for mail (exim, but maybe postfix in the future), mailman, apache, twiki
> (changing to something else), ssh, and not much else.
> 
> Can a raspberry Pi do that?  I thought they were underpowered but someone mentioned using one as a
> file server so maybe it would be good enough.  My server certainly doesn't do much.
> 
> I think I'd prefer an Alix board to a Sheeva/Guru Plug but I also think the Pi is cheaper.
> 
> I don't need much beyond 100Mb Ethernet and a way to connect a hard drive (USB2 at least, though
> something faster like SATA or USB3 might be nice--or may not matter if USB2 can keep up with the
> network).
> 
> Anyone doing real work with a <10w server?
> 
> Thanks!
> Dave
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