By Philip Churchill on February 10th, 2009
Low Cost, Low Energy WHS
A guy by the name of Rutger is listing his build sheet for a low cost, low energy Windows Home Server.
He says what his requirements are:
- Very low energy use.
- Very silent (it will stand in my bedroom)
- Cheap
His parts list has some useful links to a CPU cooler chart and specs of a quiet 80+ rating power supply.
You can read it here.
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A computer based on Via C-7 Motherboard/CPU, or Intel ATOM, would work with 200Watt PSU, will make less noise, will take less electricity, and will have onboard Video.
I’ve also built one some time ago based on VIA C7 Motherboard. If you also plan on doing this best choose fanless and get a decent case and powersupply (personally I love Antec for both.
The small fan on my Motherboard (VIA PC2500) is very noisy. Other then that it runs fine. WD Greenpoint hdd units are very quiet, even during extensive read / write operations