[mythtv-users] Building a library.....chews up space!!

[Raymond Wagner]

On 3/28/2011 18:57, Richard Morton wrote:
>> With 2TB drives being readily available for $70 online, you're trading
>> $0.10 in hard drive capacity for $0.10 in power consumption, and you're
>> wasting a whole lot of your own and your CPU time to do so.  You may as
>> well just skip the whole process, and buy whatever storage you need to
>> store the content as-is.
> Isnt that just half the electric/power consumption story, with only
> requiring 1 drive instead of 3, you also have 1/3 the harddrive power
> consumption, which over a year could also be considerable.. or am I
> missing something?

If you put the machine into standby, or even just allow the drives to 
spin down, they will consume next to no power.  Even if you don't, an 
idle 3.5" drive will only consume 4-6W of power, or roughly equivalent 
to $4-$6 per year in electricity.