Home / Upgrading thoughts (2)
Upgrading thoughts (2)
After some more searching and even more thoughts ;) I've grabbed some cheap hardware for my little server:
- ABIT AN-M2
- AMD Sempron64 LE-1100
- 1GB MDT DDR2 Ram
- Arctic Cooling Alpine 7
Having attached a 500GB Samsung HD501LJ and a temporary DVD-Rom I installed FreeBSD Release 7.0. Well, let's see which of my requirements (see previous news) are met:
- FreeBSD > 7 compatible - OK
- onboard Nvidia/Marvell combination with nfe driver, OK
- a minimum of 4 Sata Ports - OK
eSata- underclocking/undervolting via OS or BIOS to reduce power consumption - OK
- optional: onboard graphics that can be disabled. OS can boot without it. - partly OK, saves no power
- ATX/µATX - OK, its µATX
- overall power consumption less than 50W idle - OK, its less than 45W idle
- ~41W idle with 100Mbit link and powerd
- ~44W idle with 1000Mbit link and powerd
- ~49W idle with 100Mbit link without powerd
FreeBSD was installed as i386, it's just for testing. What saved me ~8W idle and put the system down to around 45W is powerd (QnC enabled in BIOS is a requirement!). Enabling it in rc.conf was easy done with:
powerd_enable="YES"
powerd_flags="-a min -b min"