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by alongwor
Fri Oct 29, 2010 1:50 am
Forum: Green Computing
Topic: Low power usage PC
Replies: 29
Views: 41986

Re: Low power usage PC

Now those PCEngines boards look pretty cool.

I am now wondering if I can run the network services and samba from that and the and put my 500Gb drive in a USB housing and share the data via the samba mount. I can then potentially re-task my atom as a media PC for my music :-)
by alongwor
Thu Oct 28, 2010 6:04 am
Forum: Green Computing
Topic: Low power usage PC
Replies: 29
Views: 41986

Re: Low power usage PC

Thanks for the reply. The question is at the moment "theoretical". I see the atom as a low (processing) power low consumption board to fit the needs of probably 90% SHO back-end needs such as file shares and network routing. What really got me curious was the number of messages I have seen around va...
by alongwor
Thu Oct 28, 2010 2:19 am
Forum: Green Computing
Topic: Low power usage PC
Replies: 29
Views: 41986

Low power usage PC

Hi all, I am new here so hello to everyone and apologies if this has already been covered. At the moment this is purely theoretical question but... I run a low power atom PC as a network gateway with all the associated services (DHCP, Samba file shares, firewall, router etc). The current setup is as...