The most obvious answer is Marvells SheevaPlug, about $100 US. It uses approximately 5 watts, I have multiple usb hard drives hanging off of a powered 2.0 usb hub, right now I have about 2 Tb hooked up, but it is easy to add or subtract. I run mysql, apache2, with a dyndns account I can access everything from any where. I run a vnc server also which also allow me access to a virtual desktop as the SheevaPlug itself does not have vga output. I never turn it off and it is fanless. I boot debian lenny from a 8 GB SD. I can not believe there is a more energy efficient solution out there at the moment. Very nice.
Check out:
http://www.openplug.org/http://www.marvell.com/featured/plugcomputing.jsphttp://www.marvell.com/products/embedded_processors/developer/kirkwood/sheevaplug.jsp
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The most obvious answer is Marvells SheevaPlug, about $100 US. It uses approximately 5 watts, I have multiple usb hard drives hanging off of a powered 2.0 usb hub, right now I have about 2 Tb hooked up, but it is easy to add or subtract. I run mysql, apache2, with a dyndns account I can access everything from any where. I run a vnc server also which also allow me access to a virtual desktop as the SheevaPlug itself does not have vga output. I never turn it off and it is fanless. I boot debian lenny from a 8 GB SD. I can not believe there is a more energy efficient solution out there at the moment. Very nice. Check out: http://www.openplug.org/ http://www.marvell.com/featured/plugcomputing.jsp http://www.marvell.com/products/embedded_processors/developer/kirkwood/sheevaplug.jsp