[Server-devel] Recommended tropical island XS hardware

[Tom Parker]

On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 23:18 -0500, Andra DuPont wrote:
> I have deployed two servers using netbooks. One is an Acer Aspire One 532h and
> the other is an Asus Eee PC 1005PEB. Both are using the Atom 450 processor at
> ~1.67 Ghz with 1 GB ram. I put 500 GB hard drives in each, which added $75.
> They cost about $325 after hard drive upgrade. They consume about 10W. They of
> course do have fans, and it will be some time before I can give you a reliability report.
> They are being used in a dry (almost desert like) area of Kenya, and they are in a mud
> wall building with a metal roof that stays fairly warm ~90 F. So far, so good. This is not
> "recommended" hardware per se, but it is cost effective and low power.

How many students are these servers supporting? There is actually quite
difference between atom cpus, the I have a D510 server and an N280
laptop and the D510 is significantly faster for video encoding. I
haven't looked at integer/logic type operations.