Recommendation for Fedora server?

[ed at hp.uab.edu]

On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Timothy Murphy wrote:

> ed at hp.uab.edu wrote:
>
>>>> Also, match the power supply to the load. If you only need 50 watts,
>>>> do not buy a 400 watt power supply. I think I have a 150 or 200 watt
>>>> power supply in my VIA C3 computer, LPX form factor.
>>>
>>> While you don't need a huge supply, one bigger than your current needs
>>> gives you more room to play with later on, if you have to add something,
>>> or the power supply gets a bit sick.  The wattage is the capacity of
>>> what it can deliver, not that it's always going to draw 400 Watts from
>>> the mains and be a drain on your electricity bill.
>>>
>>
>> You are correct, that at 400 watt power supply does not always draw 400
>> watts from the wall. But the efficiancy of the power supply is less when
>> how running at full power. Take this article for example:
>>
>> http://www.silentpcreview.com/article263-page4.html
>>
>> The 300 watt power supply leaks 12 watts when the computer only needs 40
>> watts.
>
> Probably an ignorant question,
> but if one is talking about a mini-ITX system,
> will a cheap external AC power adaptor do the job,
> like those incorporated into a power plug, eg
> <http://www.mini-box.com/60w-12v-5A-AC-DC-Power-Adapter_2?sc=8&category=13>?
>

Well not quite. Its OK if you don't have any spinning platters in your 
hard drive. But you asked for 200-300GB of storage.

But if you just wanted 32GB of flash... then this would work.

Or, you had all your big drives on the usb 2.0 bus.

ed