[mythtv-users] MythTV box power usage

[Brian Wood]

On Sunday 15 February 2009 09:51:33 John Drescher wrote:
> > My 9850 (quad core phenom), 6 GB RAM, 2 (for now) video cards, 11 drives
> > including 2 15K SCSI drives, takes about 450W according to the UPS
> > running it.  Seems a bit high, but maybe not.
>
> That is about what my main user data file server at work uses
> (according to APC). Two antec power supplies (not 80+), two Opteron
> 248 CPUs. 4GB of pc 3200 DDR1 ram + 18 x 250GB WD SATA 1 drives (still
> spinning 24/7/365 from 2004), two promise sx8 ( 8 channel SATA cards),
> a scsi card a Qunatum DLT-IV tape drive that no longer reads or writes
> with reliability but is still connected. I have not removed the drive
> because it is rare that I am the only person at work..

DLT-IV and DLT-7000 drives are available cheap these days. If you are going to 
have a drive in the machine you might as well have a working one.

VXA-2 drives (80GB native/160GB "compressed") are available for $20 these 
days. Funny when the drive costs about half what a blank tape costs.

Backing up today's large hard drives is a problem, and given the price of hard 
drives, a lot of folks are just backing up to other hard drives.

Just remember, RAID is NOT a backup solution.

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