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sapsa:
Hey,
Recently I found alot of "fun" devices that you plug hdd into, set torrent on it and its downloading torrents w/o needed your PC.
The Best part is that some of those devices support OpenWRT.
But the worst part is that those "supported" devices are old (like they support max 10gb hdd or something)
And I dont realy want to buy new Router so i can flash it with OpenWRT and plug hdd into USB
Im looking for similar devices that support OpenWRT or have something better than 4 torrents at same time and after downloading they dont seed them any more

I read that alot of you got HomeServers, are those you old PC or some dedicated devices?
My main gole is to make a Seed Device with low Power Supply cost. My current PC eats 260W per Hour, so its a bit crazy for my thanks to bills ;/
And the Dedicated Devices like the one that i wrote on begining are like 30-40W :O

I know theres alot of NAS but price of those are to much right now for me

Edit: Im thinking about making a dedicated "PC" using the new mobo with Atom CPU I heard they use 10-20W only, so that would workd nice :) but if thers any dedicated device that any post here, I will be happy
Any advices ? Thank for replays :)

~ Peace

Xiong Chiamiov:
There are many plug computers that are for that sort of thing; the storage on them is limited, though, so you may want to have a separate data-storage machine.

The advantage of using a full-on computer is that of flexibility, as you can repurpose it when you change your mind.  If you go for something more powerful (and don't like your modularization), you can have one machine do your storage/bittorrent/media center.

rl9009:

--- Quote from: Xiong Chiamiov on January 11, 2010, 10:56:18 PM ---The advantage of using a full-on computer is that of flexibility, as you can repurpose it when you change your mind.  If you go for something more powerful (and don't like your modularization), you can have one machine do your storage/bittorrent/media center.

--- End quote ---

Hell, as xiong_chiamov pointed out, you can even use your NAS as a hypervisor host too!

Currently I am doing that, having all the routing, storage, user authentication, bittorrent handled by my "NAS" server running Server 2008...

sapsa:

--- Quote from: Xiong Chiamiov on January 11, 2010, 10:56:18 PM ---There are many plug computers that are for that sort of thing;

--- End quote ---

They aren't avaible in my country ;P cuz they too fresh ;P - but i will check them for sure, but i dont think they are cheaper than mobo with atom cpu and dc power supply ;) ( and thanks for info about them, I didnt know something like that is made ;) )

edit: like i thought, no sellers in my country ;P - but im impressed ;p - plug computer lol :P


--- Quote from: Xiong Chiamiov on January 11, 2010, 10:56:18 PM ---The advantage of using a full-on computer is that of flexibility, as you can repurpose it when you change your mind
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True, but IDEA for making this is to cut power bills ;P so normal PC = high bills ;p

kureshii:
You can just buy a modern PC. Last I checked, the AMD Regor dual-cores and Intel's Celeron Dual-Core series easily idle at 40+W (assuming integrated graphics and a single hard disk), and you can maybe go even lower with some undervolting and/or with a single-core processor. Or if you prefer something with much lower power consumption, you could follow your advice from your first post and take a look at the Intel Atom-based Pinetrail systems that were revealed at CES 2010 (and probably stocking on shelves as we speak).

You don't even need to look into specialist devices, unless 2-3W makes a big difference to you. Commodity PCs should easily run specialist Linux distros like FreeNAS (for a NAS-like device) and Smoothwall/monowall (firewalling/routing). See Wikipedia for a more extensive list.

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