I used to run an old server from home, it was costing me about $7.00 / month in electricity not including the<br>over head of having it and the network devices on the ups. It had 512MB ram two 10Krpm scsi drives running raid.<br>
No monitor normally was attached.<br><br>I was thinking about Jim's suggestion and thought about some boat anchors I have.<br><br>I have a tiny HP E-PC C10 e-vectra, that has stickers on it for Windows 2000 and XP workstation 4.0 and Celeron processor.<br>
it uses a laptop mother board the external power supply is 19V box says 3160ma needed.<br><br>a 128MB of s100 ram (one slot only ) my understanding is that there are 256MB strips but probably hard to find.<br><br>a 1/4 IDE height CD drive slot ( I have none ).<br>
<br>2 usb<br><br>audio in/out old style mouse/kybd connectors (PS/2)<br><br>RJ45 Ethernet ( doesn't appear to like my 100/1000 network. Probably only supports 10Mbit<br><br>serial,parallel, vga <br><br>an external power supply<br>
<br>takes 36 watts idle with HDisk installed.<br>includes Samsung SP0802N drive with fedora F18 ( the latest ) just installed this morning.<br>the drive doesn't seem to support SMART so I can't give you any stats on it.<br>
root password is the drive model number in lower case :)<br><br>Unfortunately this version of fedora doesn't seem to be able to drive the display, it gets a bunch of crazy blockies <br>it does boot I was able to login and issue commands.<br>
so if you connected it to 10 Mbit network you could config it via ssh.<br><br>Did I mention 36 watts with hdrive installed and spinning idle :)<br><br>$10 takes it all. Heck the drive and my labor of installing it worth that :)<br>
<br>---<br>Vince<br><br><br><br>