RE: Electricty Usage/Costs (Again)

["John Murray" <John.Murray@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Just to complete the picture Mark, what NAS box were you testing
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ly?

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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of M=
ark McCall
Sent: 20 September 2006 14:35
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Electricty Usage/Costs (Again)

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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
<http://www.ukpower.co.uk/r=
unning-costs-elec.asp>=20
..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?!?!



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