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Submission + - Lots of little Atoms or one big box?

Matey-O writes: "My DMZ hobby box is getting a little winded. Evidently ntop, bittorrent, apache, mysql, wordpress, phpbb3, ruby, snort and snorby are more than a P4 with 512 mb of RAM can reasonably be expected to handle. I have three older P4 systems doing things like file services, Security auditing, IDS, and hosting a dozen or so websites (some with Wordpress and forum stuff). At any point in time, most of the machines are idle, but when I need them, they get pounded on pretty hard.

So, would you build 3 $150 Atom boxes, that consume less power at idle, or would you build a single $400 C2Quad box that could juggle all of the requirements on one box. (Assume, for the sake of arguement, that we're just talking about the DMZ security context, I'm not comfortable mixing home file services on the same box.)"

Comment Re:The real question (Score 1) 453

Lets compare your Impala to my 1966 Cadillac Hearse
Length: 21.6 feet
Width: 8 feet
Height: about 6 feet
Weight: 6000 lbs.

It gets 11 mpg and is like driving your livingroom.

I'm making sure the kids have to come up with a new way to get around. Let THEM find a replacement for the oil economy. I'll help, but I'll also give them incentive too.

Comment Re:Misleading Headline (Score 1) 125

And it's surprisingly easy to do. Monitor the ingress/egress traffic, throw away everything but the first 130-odd bits of the TCP Header and you get surprisingly good compression on the data.

Several years ago, I took a SANS class on Snort. Evidently Sandia Labs captured every packet on the wire and kept the transaction info, indefinitely. It was roughly a DVD-R a week.

On th other end of the spectrum, I syslog all of the connection info from our firewalls. I rotate the logs daily, and compress them when they're 30 days old (gzip logs-03-*) So far this year, the enterprise logs are 43 Gb. And disks are cheap.

Comment Move 'em down the line (Score 1) 546

The 250 giggers are on the nas box holding backups, one 100 gig laptop drive replaced the 40 gig drive on the Apple TV, the other is holding a copy of Windows 7 so I didn't bork the Ubuntu drive on the media box...

The 512 mb sd cards, OTOH, pitch 'em. I can't believe I'm saying this, but half a gig just isn't enough space to do anything with...movies are 700 Mb, as are most distros. (I use unetbootin to get away from burning CD's when testing out new distros these days.)

That's the price of progress, I guess.

Now, count the number of mass storage devices you have, between phones, DVR's, game machines, MP3 players, etc.

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