Re: Electricty Usage/Costs (Again)

["Andy Davies" <dajdavies@xxxxxxxxx>]

For comparison came across these figures for the new Linkstation boxes
on
http://forum.linkstationwiki.net/index.php?action=3Dvthread&forum=3D16&topi=
c=3D1520


> Did some power checks (PRO 250) against my LS HG (300G) (done this
before
> with the LS1). These are the findings:
>
> Standby (off) Pro 2W, HG 1W
> Peak (power on) Pro 24W, HG 30W
> Idle (disk spining CPU ~0%) Pro 12W, HG 14W
> Busy (>50%) Pro 12W, HG 14W
> 1000Mb connection Pro 14W, HG 18W


As the pro's got a 400mhz ARM based chip in it, hopefully people will be
able to do something useful with them too...

On 20/09/06, Mark McCall <lists@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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
th=
e
> cost of running a similar PC based fileserver!
>
> Another scary thing I noticed is that when the Dell PC was shut down,
it
> was
> still using 14Watts?!?!?
>
> M.
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