Re: Electricty Usage/Costs (Again)

[Chris Hunter <cjhunter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

1600 @7p => over 100GBP per annum ... x 6 => more than I'd want
to know
about !!

Chris



Stephen McGarry wrote:

>I Had to shutdown my fileserver today so I put the power meter on it.
>This is Athlon X64 3400+ with 9 Disks (System plus 8x300GB RAID =
2.1TB)
>but no monitor et al as on KVM
>Runs at approx 160W-180W all the time (14W Standby). so about
>1600kwH/Year...
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>Must measure some of the other 6 PCs running 24/7 !!
>
>Stephen
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>P.S. Glas it was a RAID5 Array as had cu]orruption problem on one the
>drives but it rebuilt it self in about 5 hours!
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
>Of David Gumbrell
>Sent: 20 September 2006 23:49
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Electricty Usage/Costs (Again)
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>Interesting, be useful to compile some comparisons, especially
>multi-disk PC
>server vs multi-disk RAID NAS like the Infrant etc.
>
>My meagre datapoints ...
>
>Mini-ITX (1Ghz C3) one disk running DSL+ Slimserver, OS via CF card:55W
>running, 43W HD spun-down, 17W standby (bloody disgraceful). When I've
>got
>time I need to sort out forced shutdown and WOL from Cortex.
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>Also just replaced IPCOP/Old PC (dunno but probably ~100W) with the
>6-NIC
>firewall device from LINITX (1GHz C3 again, CF card, 133MHz SDRAM) -
17W
>running. Looks like it would have quite a reasonable payback period.
>
>Can't believe these shutdown results, complete disgrace, I must see
what
>my
>household baseload is like with "shutdown" PCs and various
device
>chargers
>etc through the night. I think it would pay to sort out some more
>automated
>sockets...
>
>It also makes the multiple HA servers via virtualisation on single fast
>PC
>vs multiple slower PC question worth getting some data on.
>
>Cheers,
>
>David
>
>On 9/20/06, John Benfield <john.benfield@
><mailto:john.benfield%40gmail.com>
gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>Another scary thing I noticed is that when the Dell PC was
shut
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>down,
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>>>>still using 14Watts?!?!
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>>I recently measured my Dell and that pulls around 17watts when it's
>>'turned
>>off'. It now gets turned off at the mains once it's finished it
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>powerdown
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