little boxes [was: DECtop]
Christopher Browne
cbbrowne-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Wed Jul 4 04:58:48 UTC 2007
On 7/3/07, Ansar Mohammed <ansarm-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Yes, but there are allot of them on ebay and they go for $10-$25.
> Not bad when you consider they come with a AMD K6-III and use standard RAM :P
At some point, some of the folks at work plan to build very small DNS
nodes essentially as cacheing servers to feed zones. One idea is for
1U boxes, but it would be mighty interesting to have something even
way smaller than that...
- If they're small enough and cheap enough, we might deliver a couple
of them to each site; if one is noticed to fail, it could get shipped
back, without needing much thought.
- If they're low powered, and tiny, they might even borrow power from
a USB port on something else, or such like, and just hide in an ISP,
velcroed or taped to the wall.
Those decTOP boxes seem like they may be just a bit *too* wimpy, but
they're certainly in a cute-looking price range. One would hope that
if they're $100 USD, that something more potent could be had for $200
USD, which is still cheap enough to make boxes smell
"quasi-disposable."
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