Re: Re: Modern Home Servers - Power Savings

[Mal Lansell <mal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

But how much would that 20W machine cost to buy ;-)

Mark McCall wrote:
>
> > £295 a year is quite a lot of money to be spending on
running a
> server ...
> > it's about 80p (or 10kw) a day.
>
> Looking at their article again - blogs.technet.com/homeserver - they
are
> using German electricity prices which seem to be around £0.16 per
unit.
>
> 20 months ago I measured my basic Dell (single drive) machine at
> around 150W
> - http://tinyurl.com/26ge38 <http://tinyurl.com/26ge38> or 3.6
KwH's
> (that compares to the 5 KwH's used
> for their server spec calculation).
>
> Here in NI electricity is currently (get it!) 11.11p +vat per unit so
I
> calculate my 150W box at around 40p per day or £146.00 + vat
(5%?) per
> year.
> So say that's replaced with a 20 Watt machine - that would cost approx
> £19.30 +vat - so whatever your leccy prices, the potential
relative
> savings
> are undeniable.
>
> M.
>
>


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