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Originally Posted by jontz

Intertesting thoughts about installing FreeNAS onto a snap server. I do understand the desire to save power, but if you do the math we aren't talking about a lot of power or money. At $0.06/Killowatt hour, a snap server drawing 50 watts of power for one month (30 days)would only be $2.16 or 36 Killowatt hours. You could get yourself an older celeron based PC and underclock it to about 233 MHz or so. Without a CD-ROM, sound card, excess RAM, etc in it. It should be about as efficient as a snap server at that point. In fact, if you have a larger mid-tower case you could probably cool the whole thing with just the power supply fan if you had a large passive heatsink on the underclocked processor and heatsinks on the hard drives. Not having extra fans would lower power consumption as well. Obviously these are American rates, I have no idea how much electricity costs accross the pond. Just some thoughts though.

I am curious from a technical standpoint about getting another OS up and going on a snap, however I wonder if the designers at snap/quantum/adaptec have mangled the hardware in such a way as to prevent such an OS switch.

Well, if the fuel comparison is anything to go by, it will be a lot

But i do know what Nick means, as here in the UK there has been 2 recent fairly large price hikes on electricity, and my parents have changed supplier to help reduce costs, and are a bit more strict with making sure things are turned off when not in use



I reckon on the 4*** it may be possible, as somone has used alow profile PCI card to get a screen working, and you can see it post and such, just when the os loads it goes blank

If we could, it'd be amazing!