[wplug] eMachines?

[Benjamin Slavin]

In my experience, the power supply is also a place where corners are 
cut, which is integral to any file server or always-on, must-have device.

At our ISP, we run a small internal file server on an older 400MHz HP 
Vectra. We have an identical machine in place as a hot backup, and 
another similar machine that runs as a small database/radius/LDAP 
server. They were designed to be business systems, and run without ANY 
problems. I don't know what they'd cost today, but we have had these 
things running OpenBSD 24/7 for about 2.5 years now, and haven't even 
seen so much as a hiccup.

--Ben

Tim Lesher wrote:

>On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 01:56:33PM -0500, Brandon Kuczenski wrote:
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>>I am looking to set up an inexpensive gateway/firewall in my lab ato CMU.  
>>Some cmu.misc.market (cmu-private newsgroup) guy is selling an eMachines 2
>>GHz Celeron system for $200.  Would it be a mistake for me to use such a
>>cheap POS as a linux gateway and fileserver?  
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>I doubt it.  The places where emachines, et al, cut corners and use
>cheap parts are usually in the modem, audio, and video cards, as well
>as the case: all things that aren't terribly important to a
>fileserver.
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