[Cialug] Small and quiet Linux box suggestions

[Rob Cook]

Here is an article from Ars Technica about Linux on the IntelNUC: Summary
is that depending on distro it isn't bad.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/02/linux-on-the-nuc-using-ubuntu-mint-fedora-and-the-steamos-beta/


On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Daniel A. Ramaley <daniel.ramaley at drake.edu
> wrote:

> On 2014-04-23 at 09:50:50 Thomas Kula wrote:
> > I've been seriously considering replacing the home box with an Intel
> > NUC, primarily for power savings (my ConEd bill every month raises my
> > blood pressure a good 10 points).
>
> Sounds like electricity on the East coast is a bit more expensive than
> back in Iowa. About 6-7 years ago i replaced my home servers with
> nearly-silent low-power machines i bought from SolarPC, and i think over
> the years that they have paid for themselves. More recently though i've
> also moved my servers offsite; the only thing i still run at home is my
> primary DNS. I haven't figured out how to move media storage and backups
> offsite; right now i have a 2 TB hard drive in my main machine that
> holds those. I'd be reluctant to put them off site because 1) bulk
> storage is expensive and 2) internet service is so slow here that it
> would make my media unusable. If i could find a cheap colocating option,
> maybe that would solve the expense problem, but the only way for me to
> get dramatically faster internet is to move to a neighborhood that has
> newer wiring.
>
> I should measure how much power my current home machine uses; when i
> built it in 2008 my main concerns were power consumption and noise. It
> is a *lot* quieter than my previous machine (built in 1998 for
> performance without regard to anything else). But still pretty loud; i
> don't use the phone in the same room as the computer, and have no
> problem hearing it from an adjacent room. I'd like something quiet
> enough that i don't notice it unless i put my head by it.
>
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