[Server-devel] Target price and quantitiy

[Christopher Niemöller]

Well, I got some more questions...

Whats the typical power source for the server? 12V DC or 24V DC or
110V AC or 230V AC?

What are the other conditions like temperature and humidity? Would it
be enough if the server is capable of operating between 0°-55°C and
0-90% humidity?

Which outlets are really needed (w/ switch)?
I guess something like:
-4x Ethernet (over the switch)
-4x USB2.0
-1x Power

Is something like a vga, p/s2, rs232, ... needed?

Best regards,

Christopher

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 5:54 AM, John Watlington <wad at laptop.org> wrote:
>
> On Jun 22, 2008, at 2:19 PM, Christopher Niemöller wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was playing around with some embedded computing and rugged hardware
>> and got some questions.
>>
>> Whats the target price for the school server?
>
> Around 500 USD for a server plus 500GB disk.
> Networking (access points and switches) are additional
> (although ideally a four port switch is built in...)
>
>> How many school server are needed anyway?
>
> One per school...   Larger schools need more capable servers.
> There is no single solution, from a product design perspective.
>
> If we concentrate on the needs of smaller rural schools (30-300 kids),
> we are talking about the $500 server mentioned above, with
> tough environmental constraints.  In this case, we are unfortunately
> only talking about 5K-10K units per year, and these are spread across
> multiple countries.
>
>> As you might know, its my job to design such systems, please dont take
>> this questions the wrong way. I dont want to sell anything, but Im
>> interested in supporting this project. ;)
>
> We have no problem with people interested in selling stuff.
> We need to buy servers ourselves for use in trials, etc...
>
> Cheers,
> wad
>
>