[Uaflug] Need a cheap ol' laptop

[Paul Swanson]

I don't expect this server to ever get dugg. I don't expect it to be
serving tons of files to multiple people at all hours.

I reboot my laptop once a month; it's totally fine with it.

I want a laptop as a server because:
*It's small
*It has a low power consumption
*It has built in battery backup, monitor, keyboard, mouse

Thank you for all the desktop offers so far though ;^)

-Paul

On 8/27/07, Flori Stoeber <fsfs at uaf.edu> wrote:
> > I am fixing to make a server at home, and I only have one computer, my
> > take-around laptop. It doesn't need to be very high-performance, so
> > low-power is also a good thing. Would a laptop make a good server?
> >
> > So, if someone has a spare laptop (with about 64M RAM), I'd like to buy
> > it!
> >
> > -Paul
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> In my experience, laptops make horrible servers.  Just from when I was
> sharing files at the U from my laptop and/or trying to download files.
> Unless you have bought an expensive Hard Drive (or high-end laptop),
> laptop harddrives simply are not nearly as fast as from desktops, and by
> the same token it's impossible to have the OS, swap drive, and data drives
> be seperate drives.  This means that the hard drive will probably get
> bogged down especially during such times when the computer is running
> routine maintenance programs.
>
> Also, small though they are, after running continuously for a long time,
> laptop hard drives will get quite hot.  In turn, the laptop fan will
> either kick in at a high speed, or performance will suffer as everything
> heats up.
>
> These are just my experiences as relating to two different laptops.  In my
> opinion, even the cheapest desktop will do better for a server.
>