I use win2k professional sp4 on my p3 700mhz server with 256mb ram. It works pretty fine as a server, and runs all kinds of stuff (bots, webserver, ftp server, ventrilo server, utorrent, svn, web proxy) and still has quite a bit of free ram.
Plus its a super old pc so it only draws 30 watts of power under load.
Integrating it into an existing windows network was easy as pie.
If you need help, feel free to ask.
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Are you sure about that?Beherith wrote:Plus its a super old pc so it only draws 30 watts of power under load.
My computers at home all tend to idle at around 20watts (that's when the computer is turned off, just the electric cable plugged in)
As for my "servers" they use the following:
50 watts (QNAP 409-PRO with 4 1.5TB disks)
90 watts (Win7 Ultimate, Core2 E8400, 2GB Ram, Integrated graphics, 3 SATA disks)
120 watts (ESXi 4.1 (3x Fedora Core 13 and one WinXP), Core i5 760, 16GB Ram, Riva 128 graphics, 6 SCSI disks and 1 SATA disk)
For me, the QNAP 409-PRO is a great file-server... allows me to run RAID5 without any issues, and it's even possible to upgrade to larger disks without having to empty it first (I've already changed from 4x 1TB disks to 4x 1.5TB disks)
It's controlled via a web front-end or SSH and works fine for both my windows, linuxs and media centers
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Yep, I measured it with a plug-in power meter. Even the CD drive is pulled off. Graphics and sound disabled from the motherboard, and a single hard drive inside it.