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Re: Modern Home Servers - Power Savings
- Subject: Re: Modern Home Servers - Power Savings
- From: "Lehane Kellett" <lehane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:00:19 -0000
Hmm,
I suspect a large element of the power savings come from the scheduled
power down/up, something which a PC/server running HA software (or *)
isn't able to do. I'll await the comments around running PC's for HA :-)
Lehane
--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Mark McCall" <lists@...> wrote:
>
> The Windows Home Server Team Blog has an interesting piece on the
running
> costs of a modern home server versus a regular PC. They found the
annual
> running costs to be around =A325 versus =A3295............
>=20
> .......When most other energy saving technologies
Solar/Wind/HeatPump etc
> still appear to have huge payback times, it seems you really could
benefit
> financially from buying a new home server. For example in the best
power
> saving senario the Fujitsu Siemens Scaleo Home Server 1500 at around
=A3400
> could be considered to have been "free" in under 18
months...
>=20
> http://tinyurl.com/5t5hg8
>=20
> M.
>
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