low-power

Currently using the T620 as a low-powered homeserver and was wondering if anyone has figured out how to enable iommu on this? Theoretically the cpu does support it (I think!) but there is no bios option. It might be a bit extreme but if somebody has figured out coreboot then iommu could probably...

Hey guys! I want to build a low power ceph cluster! Rejected Xeon "X79" LGA2011 etc I've considered getting some old Xeon LGA2011 or whatever servers from AliExpress which would make cost low, ECC RAM abundant and IO aplenty. But they'll probably idle at at least 60W each for just the...

Hi everyone Been following STH a long time, the time has come for registration and first post! Build’s Name: S.M.A.S.H. (Small Multipurpose AMD Server Hardware) :) Operating System/ Storage Platform: CentOS, FreeNAS as a VM CPU: AMD Ryzen 1400 Motherboard: Asus Prime B350M-A Chassis: Fractal...

Build’s Name: BetterThanPi Operating System/ Storage Platform: Ubuntu Server 16.04.02 LTS CPU: Intel Celeron N3160 Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-N3160TN Chassis: Custom Drives: 2x Samsung 850 EVO 250GB RAM: 8GB (2x4GB) 1600MHz DDR3L Add-in Cards: Power Supply: 60W brick from old laptop Other Bits...

I could not locate a section on where to ask for build advice, so I decided to drop it here. I hope it's OK :) Currently, I have system with a mATX Supermicro X10SLM+-F (with a Xeon ES-1240V3 CPU) that functions as both a fileserver and virtualisation machine. Due to shifting priorities...