RE: Re: [OT] External Hard Disk

["Paul Gale" <groups2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

3 giga Watts?  ;)

... and you need your own coal fired power station in the back garden!

Paul.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Phil Harris
> Sent: 31 August 2007 18:27
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: [OT] External Hard Disk
>
> 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
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