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A couple of years back, I bought myself a small server<\/a>\u00a0with the intention that it would replace many of the various PCs I was using at home.\u00a0 As\u00a0a result, I did decommission some older hardware and it allowed me to consolidate the infrastructure I use for my home office network, testing and development onto one Hyper-V host, supplemented by an assortment of client devices (my netbook, my kids’ netbook, my wife’s laptop, the living room Mac, my MacBook, my work notebook) and a couple of Netgear ReadyNAS Duos<\/a>\u00a0(one as always-on storage, the other as an iSCSI target<\/a>).\u00a0 The trouble is that, even though the clients may be shutdown or in a low-power state when not in use, the server runs 24×7 consuming something in the region of 100W of power<\/a> – generally just so that one virtual machine is available with my DHCP, DNS, TFTP (for IP phone configuration<\/a>) and basic web services (e.g. phone directory<\/a>).<\/p>\n

I decided to build a low-cost, low-power, PC to run as a small server and provide these services, along with Active Directory.\u00a0 After reading Jeff Atwood’s post on ultra-low-power PCs<\/a>, I was inspired; however I wasn’t sure that I’d get Windows Server running on a non-Intel chip (it might be possible, but I wasn’t going to risk it) and even though Linux could potentially offer the rest of the services I needed, a lot of my work uses Microsoft software, and I wanted to run Active Directory.<\/p>\n

I tweeted to see if anyone had any advice for me<\/a> – and there were some good suggestions – including Garry Martin’s identification of an Asus\u00a0Aspire Revo nettop for around \u00a3144 at eBuyer<\/a>.\u00a0 That got me thinking: I wasn’t sure about the Revo’s form factor – but if I could get myself a Mini-ITX wall-mountable case and suitable motherboard, then use a spare disk and memory from my “box of PC bits”, I could probably build something for a similar price.<\/p>\n

I should explain that I haven’t “built” a PC for about 10 years (maybe more) because there are so many decent OEM deals around but I started to look at what was available at mini-itx.com<\/a> (as highlighted in Jeff’s post).\u00a0 I did also consider a Fit PC\u00a02<\/a>\u00a0(low power and\u00a0Intel-based)\u00a0but it uses the Z-series Atom processors, which\u00a0provide\u00a0Intel VT (great for Windows Virtual PC) but are not 64-bit so are not suitable for Windows Server 2008 R2 (or for Hyper-V – although virtualisation is not something I’m looking to do with this server).\u00a0 Eventually, I settled on a Travla C158 case<\/a>\u00a0coupled with an Intel D945GCLF2 board<\/a>\u00a0which has an Intel Atom 330<\/a> giving me a dual-core x64 CPU (actually it’s like two Atom N270s on the same socket<\/a>) with hardware DEP (but not VT).\"Intel\u00a0\u00a0There were other options with lower power consumption, but they would have involved using non-Intel CPUs (and I was unable to confirm that Windows Server will run on a Via Eden (for example); however this Atom 330\/Intel D945GCLF2 board combination is still providing plenty of computing power for my purposes\u00a0(William Henning’s review on neoseeker is worth a read<\/a>).<\/p>\n

I ordered the equipment\u00a0yesterday evening at 19:00 (the mini-itx.com site says “place UK orders before 7.30PM GMT for same-day despatch”) and a courier delivered it to me\u00a0before 11 today;\u00a0however I did end up buying some power\u00a0connectors because it wasn’t clear whether they would be required or not\u00a0(I left a comment in the order notes to remove them if not required but that was ignored) and\u00a0there was some confusion because I received order and stock confirmations last night but the dispatch notice wasn’t sent until today (making me think I’d missed the next-day slot).\u00a0 Even with the communications issues, that sort of turnaround is fantastic – many online stores need orders by mid-afternoon for same-day dispatch.<\/p>\n

With the hardware in place, the next step was assembly – I’ll save that for a future blog post (along with some real values for power consumption) whilst I turn my attention to configuring the software…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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