21 Mar
2010
21 Mar
'10
1:28 p.m.
Ray Arachelian wrote:
Andrew Burton wrote:
At some point soon, if I find a nice small x86 box capable of running
Solaris 10 properly, and not consume too much, I'll retire the mini and
reformat its drives with ZFS. But for now it does the job very nicely.
I recently built myself a server based on this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813121399&cm_re=d…
It's an Intel Atom D510 (dual core, 64-bit) based system, and it the
entire system draws about 20 watts at peak load. Best of all it cost me
about $230 total (w/shipping) to build (w/500gb drive and 2gb of RAM and
a modestly priced case). I even have it running a "registry laden"
operating system and it manages to boot in significantly less than 10
minutes :). I don't know what Solaris 10's hardware support looks like
these days on x86 machines, but if you're looking for something low
power, something like this might be the way to go.
- Josh