[ILUG] Elara's HP server

[Gary Pigott]

A while back I came across the Excito Bubba server 
(http://www.excito.com/bubba/technical-specifications.html). 265 euro gets 
you a fanless Linux box with space for a big honkin' SATA disk. It's been 
built with out of the box support for Torrent downloads, iTunes, uPnP & 
Squeezebox streaming, web, email and print server, firewalling, routing, 
DNS, DHCP etc. The real kicker though is a quoted power consumption of 7-13 
watts.

Gary

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul O'Malley - gnu's not unix -" <ompaul at eircom.net>
To: "keith" <keith at iol.ie>
Cc: <ilug at linux.ie>
Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2009 1:18 AM
Subject: Re: [ILUG] Elara's HP server


> keith wrote:
>>  >Link to the actual offer please Tim!
>>  >
>>  >cheers,
>>  >Robert
>>
>> http://www.elara.ie/products/detailsfull.asp?productcode=ECE1466838
>>
>>
>> fwiw, im currently using an old Toshiba "brick" laptop (PII, 135mhz ,64mb 
>> ram) for firewall (ipcop) and an HP desktop (Vector VE, PII 400mhz, 
>> 256mb, 1x20GB, 2x500GB ata) for file/print (ClarkConnect 4.3) for 5 
>> users.
>>
>> I dont know what the lappy uses but the Vector PSU is rated at 90 watts.
> 90watts 24/7/365 at 11 cent a unit (lets say you have such a deal)
> =607 euros in euros or thereabouts - if it is running at 85 percent of max 
> power it is still over 500
>
> now lets work a cheaper new box with costing about 350
> running 14 watts 24/7/365 (and kernels with wake on lan make this number 
> lower) = 94 euros in power or thereabouts
>
> you could have two of the cheaper boxes running (failover if you really 
> needed it) and payback is less than 1.25 years
>
> ohh while you are at it look at the cost of getting a good kernel that 
> does power scaling on a bigger more modern box (like the one Tim is 
> pointing at) and pay more to get better scaling and all of a sudden you 
> have different calculations and a "hardier box" to work with
>
> the brick .. well that would be running at about 25 watts it will be a 
> little lower than the PSU can deal with ...
>
> have fun thinking about the arithmetic if you do get lower power boxes :)
>
> key questions as asked earlier, what is the function, and how sustained is 
> it
>
> P.
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