[Tfug] Using a Laptop as a server

[Zack Williams]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Harry McGregor <micros at osef.org> wrote:

> Lack of ECC memory.  <--- Memory errors scare me enough that I try and use
> ECC even on desktop/workstation level systems
>

Ditto.

Lack of redundant hard disk drives <---  Unless you are willing to do raid
> across internal and USB, or you get a laptop you can swap out the optical
> drive for another HDD, you have issues.
>

Some "aircraft carrier" 17 and 18" laptops have dual 2.5" bays, or if you
go the SSD route some have mSATA card slots.


> Personally I would probably look at either the HP Microservers, or build
> something low power based on AM3+ cpus and ECC memory.
>

HP's Microservers are great hardware, and frequently can be found <$300 on
sale.  I use/highly recommend them.

AM3 stuff tend not to be low powered generally, unless you get into dual
core.  I'm not sure a <90W modern architecture quad core exists...

- Zack
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