Don Park

600mhz VIA Samuel 2 aka 'c3' (Purchased 2006ish) 1GB ram (maxed out)

• Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8623 [Apollo CLE266]
• PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8633 [Apollo Pro266 AGP]
• FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host Controller (rev 80)
• IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
• Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 50)
• Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 74)
• VGA compatible controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8623 [Apollo CLE266] integrated CastleRock graphics (rev 03)

Performance:

• dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/zero count=4096 bs=1024000 ⇒ (4.2 GB) copied 115MB/s
• dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/tmp count=8096 bs=8024 ⇒ (65 MB) copied, 24.1 MB/s (ST3200822A)
• ab -n 10000 -c 3 http://donpark.org/ ⇒ 550.63 [#/sec] (mean)
• ab -n 10 http://donpark.org/blog/ ⇒ 0.62 [#/sec] (mean)

http://www.frys.com/product/6147609 $80 (purchased May 2011)

• Host bridge: Intel Corporation N10 Family DMI Bridge (rev 02)
• VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
• PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e1)
• ISA bridge: Intel Corporation NM10 Family LPC Controller (rev 01)
• VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
• Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03)

Installed

• 2GB RAM (one PC 6400DIMM, one empty slot left)
• Intel 320 120GB SSD

Kill-a-watt

• 30W w/o hard drive
• 31W w/ SSD drive
• 38W w/ spinning drive

Performance

• dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/zero count=4096 bs=1024000 ⇒ (4.2 GB) copied 2.1 GB/s
• dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/tmp count=8096 bs=8024 ⇒ (65 MB) copied, 198 MB/s

Purchased: 2012-Nov

$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/zero count=4096 bs=1024000
4194304000 bytes (4.2 GB) copied, 3.3117 s, 1.3 GB/s
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/tmp count=8096 bs=8024
64962304 bytes (65 MB) copied, 1.40582 s, 46.2 MB/s

Purchased: (after release in feb 2016)

$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/zero count=4096 bs=1024000
4194304000 bytes (4.2 GB, 3.9 GiB) copied, 3.4779 s, 1.2 GB/s
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/tmp count=8096 bs=8024
64962304 bytes (65 MB, 62 MiB) copied, 0.526478 s, 123 MB/s

Purchased: 2016-June

$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/zero count=4096 bs=1024000
4194304000 bytes (4.2 GB, 3.9 GiB) copied, 1.26456 s, 3.3 GB/s
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/tmp count=8096 bs=8024
64962304 bytes (65 MB, 62 MiB) copied, 0.18401 s, 353 MB/s