[Server-devel] Recommended tropical island XS hardware

[Tom Parker]

Is there a "recommended" school server hardware these days?

We took EEE Boxes to Samoa and they seemed to do ok in the short time we
monitored them. Their biggest downside is no second ethernet (you have
to use USB) and you pay for the Ion chipset (both upfront and on power
consumption).

The schools in question are probably less than 200 students each, so I'm
guessing an Atom processor will be ok?

There are a few people building fanless no-name boxes based on the Intel
D510MO motherboards. I'm running one of those very successfully as my
own server, with a 3.5" harddrive it consumes about 25W when powered by
a wide input PicoPSU and HP Laptop brick (35W with a no-name desktop
power supply!). Is anyone running a schoolserver with one of these? How
many students is it good for?

The smallest cases don't take a PCI card (low profile or otherwise) so
the second ethernet port is still a problem. This
http://www.bvm-store.com/ProductDetail.asp?fdProductId=547 might work I
guess?