Low-powered motherboard of adequate capability sought

fivemack · 2011-12-16, 21:38

I'm looking for something with:

* 6 SATA ports
* Runs current Ubuntu from a USB stick
* Can serve NFS over gigabit ethernet at reasonable (>20MB/sec) speed

At the moment I'm using a whole Q6600 with 8G memory for this - my last-but-two desktop PC. This is sub-optimal because it uses quite a lot of electricity, and constantly tempts me to run sieving jobs or aliquot-sequence searches on it rather than just having it sit and serve NFS, DHCP and DNS, and ftp and http to the outside world.

http://linitx.com/product/13104 is my current thought.

henryzz · 2011-12-21, 19:26

syd claims to have a Q6700 system down to 90 watts. Could you do similar or even better? Underclocking and undervolting the cpu could reduce temptation to sieve on it. I don't know whether this would interfere with to work you actually want done on it.

http://factordb.com/status.php

2011-12-16, 21:38	#1
fivemack (loop (#_fork)) Feb 2006 Cambridge, England 2·3,191 Posts	Low-powered motherboard of adequate capability sought I'm looking for something with: * 6 SATA ports * Runs current Ubuntu from a USB stick * Can serve NFS over gigabit ethernet at reasonable (>20MB/sec) speed At the moment I'm using a whole Q6600 with 8G memory for this - my last-but-two desktop PC. This is sub-optimal because it uses quite a lot of electricity, and constantly tempts me to run sieving jobs or aliquot-sequence searches on it rather than just having it sit and serve NFS, DHCP and DNS, and ftp and http to the outside world. http://linitx.com/product/13104 is my current thought.

2011-12-21, 19:26	#2
henryzz Just call me Henry "David" Sep 2007 Cambridge (GMT/BST) 16BA₁₆ Posts	syd claims to have a Q6700 system down to 90 watts. Could you do similar or even better? Underclocking and undervolting the cpu could reduce temptation to sieve on it. I don't know whether this would interfere with to work you actually want done on it. http://factordb.com/status.php Last fiddled with by henryzz on 2011-12-21 at 19:27

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