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8 cores with a single GB of RAM. Really? If this is strictly a file server you can do a lot better than that energy wise.

• pingswept 17y ago
  (I built the server.) You're right, in a sense-- a file server certainly would be better off energy-wise with fewer cores. But building a fileserver wasn't my sole intent. In the long run, I expect to use all the cores, but with more RAM added. I just didn't want to buy RAM before I needed it-- I can add more RAM without losing the RAM already there. The same is not true for cores-- I can't add cores without throwing away the old processors. I thought about just buying one processor to start with, but I didn't want to worry about the availability of an identical second processor down the road. (Actually, now that I think of it, there's actually 2 GB of RAM in the machine now. Post updated.)
  • bockris 17y ago
    I've been thinking about one of these. http://www.tonido.com/ http://www.tonido.com/ I don't know exactly what you are going to do but it might be better to serve email/files from something like this and use your bigger server only when needed. I guessing your eventual workload for bigger server will be intermittent and in the off time you will be wasting tons of energy by running a mostly idle computer. Just my $.02