Re: Re: Modern Home Servers - Power Savings

["Andy Davies" <dajdavies@xxxxxxxxx>]

Be quite interesting to see what the new Via NAS board is like - got a
C7 and depending on the model will support up 8 drives

Andy

2008/4/23 Phil Harris <phil@xxxxxxx>:
> On Wed, April 23, 2008 1:59 pm, Mark McCall wrote:
>  >> =A3295 a year is quite a lot of money to be spending on
running a ser=
ver
>  >> ...
>  >> it's about 80p (or 10kw) a day.
>  >
>  > Looking at their article again - blogs.technet.com/homeserver -
they a=
re
>  > using German electricity prices which seem to be around =A30.16
per un=
it.
>  >
>  > 20 months ago I measured my basic Dell (single drive) machine at
aroun=
d
>  > 150W
>  > - http://tinyurl.com/26ge38 or 3.6 KwH's
(that compares to the 5 KwH's
>  > used for their server spec calculation).
>  >
>  > Here in NI electricity is currently (get it!) 11.11p +vat per
unit so =
I
>  > calculate my 150W box at around 40p per day or =A3146.00 + vat
(5%?) p=
er
>  > year. So say that's replaced with a 20 Watt machine - that would
cost
>  > approx =A319.30 +vat - so whatever your leccy prices, the
potential re=
lative
>  > savings are undeniable.
>
>  Agreed ...
>
>  ... as long as you can do what you want to do with a 20Watt device.
>
>  Sure a WHS machine can serve a couple of TB of data but once you go
>  "outside the box" for storage then you start racking up
power again on
>  multiple inefficient PSUs. My "new" server is back up to 12
drives if yo=
u
>  include the boot drive and draws a tad over 90w average (drives spun
dow=
n
>  most of the time). Compare like with like and I'll be a convert but
find
>  me the running costs for a WHS machine that is carrying 9Tb of drives
an=
d
>  is running SlimServer, Azureus, HomeGate (so can't be allowed to
sleep)
>  etc.
>
>  That's all I'm saying - just compare like with like - an ickle 20w
box
>  which wakes upevery so often would suit my mum but not really much
use t=
o
>  a user with always on needs?
>
>  Phil
>
>
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