[geeks] Silent computing

[Lionel Peterson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org [mailto:geeks-bounces at sunhelp.org] On
> Behalf Of Francois Dion
> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 1:04 PM
> To: The Geeks List
> Subject: [geeks] Silent computing
> 
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > My main problem is I am currently using a ATX case wit ha mini-ATX
> PSU and
> > the fan is rather noisy.
> 
> This reminds me. I am seriously thinking of bringing one of my own
> Sunray to work to replace my noisy desktop. It just drives me crazy
> now.

Can't you just start ripping parts out of your current workstation and
netboot it to emulate a Sunray terminal?

My Shuttle KPC K45 barebones arrived earlier this week, I'm going to stuff
2x 1TB "green" SATA drives in it and run it headless 24x7 - it has a 100
Watt PSU and should handle it just fine. I'm thinking that should be a
"fairly" quiet desktop/server (but not SILENT).[0]

Lionel

[0] http://us.shuttle.com/barebone/Models/K45.html - $100 at newegg.com,
$180 for the K48 with PCIe x1 not PCI and an external 5 1/4" drive bay (see:
http://us.shuttle.com/barebone/Models/K48.html)