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Clev · 01-23-09, 06:07 PM

I wanted a little more juice, so I use a Dell Latitude C610 laptop as my home server. It has a 1.2GHz P3-mobile processor, and sitting idle with the hard drive spun down, uses about 13 watts. It has a 60GB 5400RPM drive in it right now, but I plan to upgrade to a larger drive in the future. I'm running CentOS 5 on it, and it functions as my Podcatcher, NAS/backup drive and remote testing machine from work. (I also use it to record my local team's radio broadcast during baseball season.)

I got the unit cheap off eBay since it has a broken LCD. (I ssh into it, so I seldom need a monitor attached.) The built-in 2 hour battery backup is nice, too. :-)

01-23-09, 06:07 PM	#3
Clev Wannabe greenie Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Crestline, CA Posts: 74 Thanks: 1 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	I wanted a little more juice, so I use a Dell Latitude C610 laptop as my home server. It has a 1.2GHz P3-mobile processor, and sitting idle with the hard drive spun down, uses about 13 watts. It has a 60GB 5400RPM drive in it right now, but I plan to upgrade to a larger drive in the future. I'm running CentOS 5 on it, and it functions as my Podcatcher, NAS/backup drive and remote testing machine from work. (I also use it to record my local team's radio broadcast during baseball season.) I got the unit cheap off eBay since it has a broken LCD. (I ssh into it, so I seldom need a monitor attached.) The built-in 2 hour battery backup is nice, too. :-)