Don't they normally have ml110s and 115s on special 99 days out of 100?
^ That's a cute chassis but sounds pretty gutless.
It's not really comparable in terms of usage, so the MLs run Xeon processors I believe and is for heavy duty server usage, as where the micro server is designed for a lower CPU over head and very low power consumption (typically <40watts reading the reviews). So no it’s not going to be a multi function domain controller/VM host or anything like that, but as a file server and running a few other tasks like I have mentioned above, you would be hard pushed to get anything at that power consumption level for that cost.
The CPU isn’t supposed to be too bad either, it’s supposed to be better than the equivalent Atom, which it is essentially AMDs version of this..
If you check the HUKD thread, there are some people who have put in a HD decoding graphics card and running it as a media centre computer without problems.
I bought this so I had a computer that could be always on, with minimal cost and maximum functionality, it’s not a perfect machine, but I think for it’s target market you can’t get much better, H/W raid would make it much better, but look at the cost vs those dedicated NAS boxes and the flexibility of this..
