Re: Modern Home Servers - Power Savings

["pjqx" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I just finished a 10 day powertest on my home server (built into an=20
IBM server Chassis with 3.4G Xeon & 1.5TB of drives and it runs at=20
about 100W on average which I was delighted with.  I have installed=20
the LIGHTS OUT Add-in but haven't got it shutting down over night=20
just yet - but I imagine if I shut it down for 8 hours over night=20
there wouldn't be any downside - except for the uTorrent client not=20
taking advantage of the unmetered hours from my ISP.

Tim.=20



--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Mark McCall" <lists@...> wrote:
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> > This calculator: http://www.ukpower.co.uk/running-costs-elec.asp
> > makes that =A39.50 a month, or =A3114 a year.
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> More like =A3145 here, see my previous post.
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> > I reckon it's the disc that takes the most power=20
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> Surely it's the CPU?  A Pentium 4 / Athlon looks like 85W - 125W=20
for example
> compared to around 20W peak for a VIA C7.  A hard drive is around=20
15 - 30W ?
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> M.
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