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Electricty Usage/Costs (Again)


  • Subject: Electricty Usage/Costs (Again)
  • From: "Mark McCall" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:35:00 +0100

Last night I was measuring the power usage of a little NAS unit
compared to
a PC and thought the info might be useful to some here.  The NAS uses
18Watts and the PC almost 150Watts.

Using this calculator...
http://www.ukpower.co.uk/running-costs-elec.asp
..the annual 24/7 running costs for each work out as follows

NAS - =A317.38
PC - =A3144.80

Those costs don't include VAT and are based on current NI price of 11.02p
per kWh.  But whatever your own prices, the NAS could cost only 12% of the
cost of running a similar PC based fileserver!

Another scary thing I noticed is that when the Dell PC was shut down, it
wa=
s
still using 14Watts?!?!?

M.





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