On 01/11/2013 02:59 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote: > On 01/11/2013 02:55 PM, SilverTip257 wrote: >> I'm in search of some hardware that consumes a low amount of power for use >> as a test-bed for Linux, various coding projects, and LAN services. > > I have a couple of HP MicroServers N40L's with 8gb of ram each; although > they only have a dual core, and a real lower power cpu - it tends to be > fast enough for most things. eg. I am using those to test the installers > in 5.9/i386 and x86_64 in various conditions and the install time is > very acceptable. > > Plus, they run CentOS5/6 32 and 64bit perfectly. I too had been looking at these as the servers I use at present for testing are using way too much power (I have 3 off dual core Poweredge 860s with 8GB of RAM). Looking at the specs for N40Ls though put me off because they're rated at 150W. Or am I missing something here? Cheers, Phil... -- currently (ab)using CentOS 5.8 & 6.3, Debian Squeeze & Wheezy, Fedora Beefy & Spherical, Lubuntu 12.10, OS X Snow Leopard & Ubuntu Precise & Quantal GnuPG Key : http://www.horse-latitudes.co.uk/publickey.asc