[ltp] ThinkPads as servers.

[Michael Z Daryabeygi]

good points, especially with the "headless" laptops.
I'd like to see a picture of your wooden racks.
:)
Michelle Klein-Hass wrote:

>On Thursday 09 December 2004 01:59 pm, Michael Z Daryabeygi wrote:
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>>Why would you use a laptop as a server?
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>OK, there are several reasons.
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>1.) Power consumption. A laptop plugged in 24/7 sucks as much or less juice 
>than an EPIA Mini-ITX box.
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>2.) Cheapness. Low-end laptops that can do the job (anything from a ThinkPad 
>365 on up as far as I'm concerned) can be had for a song now. I was actually 
>*given* the headless TP 570 I'm going to turn into a web server, but my buddy 
>Chad Page bought a lot of 10 of them for $40/ea. Try buying an EPIA Mini-ITX 
>box for $40. He's got an extra so I'm going to buy it from him so I can turn 
>it into a router/firewall/Intrusion Detection system/honeypot.
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>3.) The standard Geek reason: Because you can!
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>>Why not just get one of those cute little square front boxes that hardly
>>take up any space.  You can attach a monitor to do setup but on a
>>regular basis you could leave the monitor.keyboard detached and remote
>>into the box from your laptop.
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>Because these TP 570s are headless (the seller decided he could get more $$$ 
>parting them out than selling them whole, the lousy bastard) I will be able 
>to do one more thing with these decapitated beauties: my husband will be 
>building me a wood rack so that the machines can be racked up on edge like a 
>plate in a dish rack. I'm going to use the power supplies as ballast to make 
>the resulting rack less tippy. This will mean that the two machines will take 
>up about a 2" by 12" footprint on the surface it ends up on. Neat huh?
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>I intend to completely write this up, and host the results on the web server 
>machine of the pair. I'll also post a writeup on ThinkWiki as well.
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>Take care,
>Michelle
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