Axentra Rumba Server - Home Do-It-All Box

Posted by michael on Friday October 3, 2003 @09:35PM from the looking-for-completely-silent-operation dept.

JigSaw writes "OSNews has an exclusive article on a new Linux-based server appliance product -- the first in the family -- the Axentra Rumba Server. The product is to be launched soon, but details of it have being leaked out already: The device has a mini ITX mobo, VIA C3 800 MHz CPU, 256 MB RAM, 40 GB hdd, USB 1.1, 2 LAN ports and in 1 WAN port (extra Wi-Fi USB device required). The device is useful as an Internet Gateway (DNS, IP filtering, Port forwarding, NAT firewall), as a network service (web server, file server, WebDAV, IMAP/SMTP, Samba, Content/Spam Filtering, photo album). It has an embedded web server so you can administer it via your web browser. It is compatible with Linux, Macs and Windows."

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What is the power consumption by elgaard · 2003-10-04 00:50 · Score: 0, Flamebait

As other have mentionen you can put together an old computer with linux that will do most of the same tasks and cost less. But it will take up more space and the saving will be eaten by the power bills (appliances like this have longer lifetimes than PC's). You can also get an old laptop for less than $500. It uses ~20Watt (monitor turned off and disk spinned down). 20W is still 1700 kWh in 10 years.

I think their presentation misses a good selling point. It could be a backup server. Although it will not be offsite (unless you use a USB removable disk) a lot of familes could benefit from a backup server at home.