Have seen some deals happening lately on the bay trail tablets like the Dell venue pro or lenovo miix 2 and got to thinking that they might make a decent small low powered server for something like a backup AD controller or similar. Has anyone here tried this yet?
They have similar specs to the ECS Liva that some of you have been playing around with. Normally specs are
Quad core bay trail
32 or 64gb eMMC drive
2gb ram
Powered via USB
Since they have a battery you would get a built in UPS which would normally be good for a few hours runtime
Downside I see is that they don't have much in the way of networking support other than wireless though you could set them up with a USB wired nic
Seeing the price as low as $150 Canadian for refurbs in store and sometimes for less on used units.
Thoughts?
They have similar specs to the ECS Liva that some of you have been playing around with. Normally specs are
Quad core bay trail
32 or 64gb eMMC drive
2gb ram
Powered via USB
Since they have a battery you would get a built in UPS which would normally be good for a few hours runtime
Downside I see is that they don't have much in the way of networking support other than wireless though you could set them up with a USB wired nic
Seeing the price as low as $150 Canadian for refurbs in store and sometimes for less on used units.
Thoughts?