Re: Re: [OT] External Hard Disk

[Chris Hunter <cjhunter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

how about 26 x 37W + 21W = 983 watts ...

to be offset by savings in heating-system running costs, of course.

OTOH, how realistic is all spinning at once ?

Chris


On 31 Aug 2007, at 22:25, Rob Iles wrote:

> Are you going to give us the real figure?
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> R
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> On 8/31/07, Phil Harris <phil@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>   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 <ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com> [mailto:
>> ukha_d@xxxxxxx <ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>] On Behalf
>>> Of Phil Harris
>>> Sent: 31 August 2007 18:00
>>> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
>>> 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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