Re: Got my new Home Server up and running..

["Ian Lowe" <ianlowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Paul Bendall" <paul@...>
wrote:
> Reading the thread its gonna be about compromise.

always! money no object, I'd have a mini data centre with an EMC
Clariion and some blade servers ;)

> A fast CPU with so many features is going to draw so much power.

kinda...

the Q6600 Intel proc is one of the newer generation of more power
sensitive CPUs - one of the warnings I have read about them is to not
assume that there is a failure if the fan stops spinning, as it's
quite normal fort he heat production (and therefore wasted energy) to
be low enough that the CPU cooler idles down to zero.


> How about reversing the logic and working out the horse-power you
realistically need?

to be honest, that's why I ended up where I am - at every performance
point, there's a set of compromises, and I have opted for one box
with a lot more headroom rather than run multiple smaller machines.

Ultimately, I would love to see the new super materials and lower
micron processes used to make a newer generation of really cool (in
the thermal sense) and low power systems that still have the headroom
to be useful!!

to be brutally honest, I have considered deploying some of my older
kit with Ubuntu rather than XP, as step for step it performs better
on the older kit... the only problem is a small number of apps that
do not work at all on Ubuntu, even under VM or Wine.

I have great hopes for the new generation of small form factor
devices (the grunt that the eee PC has is one cool example), but for
now I think the best platform is a single slightly more ballsy box
rather than a few smaller devices...