Re: Most hassle free sparc64 platform

On Sun, 3 Oct 2010, Chris Smith wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Chris Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>
> Big thanks to everyone who replied to this thread.  I've seen a couple
> of people mention power consumption and it brought back some horrific
> memories of explaining large electricity bills to my better half [1].

Not a Sun suggestion, but a general "I have weird old hardware" 
suggestion: Get a Kill-A-Watt or equivalent in-line wattmeter.  I imagine 
they make a UK/Euro 220V version.  At least then when you get a new 
boatanchor you know how much it'll cost you to run.

> I've scaled back my requirements to something which consumes less than
> 100W of power which eliminates most of the big end stuff.  Going
> through Sun docs looking at power specs now taking people's advice
> into consideration.

With those specs I'll second the Netra T1 (105, AC100, really any of the 
1U boxes) or even the U5/U10.  I have a U10 as my firewall, and with a 
newer hard disk (selected for power rating), and the CD and floppy 
unplugged, it's 40-60W with the 440MHz CPU and 512MB RAM.

Also, generic CompactFlash to IDE adaptors will work in this machine so 
you can dispense with the spinning disk and save more power, assuming your 
application is read-mostly.


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Jameel Akari