RE: Re: [OT] External Hard Disk

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just out of interest I just shut down my "server" and
plugged all the
external drive housings (3 big 8 bay IDE to firewire enclosures + 2 single
drive IDE to firewire enclosures) and the Mac Mini into a stripblock fed
via
one of the Maplin power monitor things...

...fancy taking a guess on what the consumption of a Mac Mini plus 26
external hard discs is? (With all discs spinning and some hefty copying
going on to stress the system and force it to maximum consumption.)

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Phil Harris
> Sent: 31 August 2007 18:00
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: [OT] External Hard Disk
>
> Do any of these standalone server solutions actually support USB hubs
> so
> that you can add more than just one (or however many USB ports it has)
> hard
> discs as time progresses?
>
> I keep thinking of retiring the Mac Mini as my main server but there's
> about
> 6Tb of storage on there now (IIRC) and it just does the job so well!
>
> Phil