I just moved to Spain from Poland and now i have to pay electricity on top of my rent. It is expensive here.
I discovered that my PC has a fault as a result of the move. In addition my external sata enclosure is also causing problems.
I have been looking to looking to both a NAS and DAS solutions. The latter fails for not being online all the time and the former seems to be limited to 2 tray solutions before becoming expensive. In addition relying an hardware raid where part replacement could be an issue in the future is not suitable.
Hence i think a software based solution (XP server 2003) with greater disk capacity using a tower is the answer.
I have found the following spec for 200 Euros which i think is reasonable. I know the spec is in Spanish but it should be OK to understand.
Procesador AMD Athlon X2 5000
Disco duro SATA 160Gigas SATAII
2Giga DDRII800 Soporta DDR2 1066 800 667 y 533 en doble canal con 4 puertos de DIMM y la memoria compartida máxima hasta a 8GB (Incluidos 2048Mb DDR2 800)
Tarjeta gráfica Integrada NVIDIA® GeForce8 Series DX10 VGA, Pixel Shader 4.0, Memoria 512MBMb(maxima compartida)
NVIDIA® PureVideo™ HD Ready
Conexión VGA y DVI-D Dual para hasta 2 monitores.
DVI-D con Audio, para junto a un adaptador HDMI(No incluido) Poder usar un Monitor con HDMI o Televisor LCD-TFT-PLASMA... con HDMI, HD Ready o FullHD.
1 x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slot (green @ x16 mode)
5.1 CH Windows® Vista™ Premium Level HD Audio (Realtek ALC662 Audio Codec)
Chipset embedded HDMI Audio
Tarjeta de Red 10/100/1000 Mb/s
6 x Serial ATAII 3.0 Gb/s conectores. Soporta RAID (RAID 0,
RAID 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 5, JBOD), NCQ, AHCI and "Hot Plug" funciones
Soporta NVIDIA® Hybrid SLI™
1 x ATA100 IDE conector (Soporta 2 x IDE)
Preparado para Windows® Vista
Since this machine will only be used for network backup , torrents and playing media, how can i reduce the power consumption further?
Do i need to change the PSU? Can i change the PSU? Will the PSU have fuse breakers as Spanish homes are poorly wired? (at the moment all the electrics are run on the same circuit)
Thanks
Green in Spain
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