[Freedombox-discuss] Energy efficient Intel server

[Sandy Harris]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 10:36 PM, Rob van der Hoeven
<robvanderhoeven at ziggo.nl> wrote:

> Last week i build a new Intel Pentium system that is very energy
> efficient. Idle power consumption is just 23 Watt, max power consumption
> is 53 Watt (no graphics). It can be used as a FreedomBox server/general
> purpose PC or both...

For such a server I would look at solid state disk -- much lower power
than hard drives, but higher cost per gigabyte and for a FreedomBox
difficulty in erasing it completely may be a concern. See a previous
thread here for discussion.

I'd also look at Intel's Atom line of low-power CPUs:
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/processors/atom/atom-processor.html
Those get CPU power usage down under 5 watts.

Wikipedia lists Via Nano and AMD Fusion CPUs as Atom competitors.
Those might also be an alternative.