<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Jul 22, 2008, at 3:52 PM, Mitch Gore wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 8:32 AM, Peter VanDerWal <<a href="mailto:peter@vanderwal.us">peter@vanderwal.us</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: -1; ">Hard to answer that without knowing for sure how much power your proposed</span></div> NAS draws and what electricity costs you.<br> But a (reallY) rough estimate, your drives are going to draw about 10<br> watts each x 6 = 60 watts. The rest of the computer (NAS) probably draws<br> at least 50-60 watts.<br> Say 120 watts total - 10 watts for the new drive. Assume electricity is<br> $0.10 per kWh, that means you'll break even in about 16 months. If you<br> sell the old drives/computer you'll break even a lot sooner.<br> <div><div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>True, but i can spin down the drives when not in use like i do on my other drives. So it will on average be the system draw plus a watt or two...</div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br><br>This is a good discussion...but to trying to explain why i need to buy new drives that are going to cost ~250-300 up front is not going to be a easy one with the wife. lol.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>I forget how much storage you said you have now split across however many drives, but how about replacing them all with a $175 1TB drive?</div><div>You can tell her you're helping the environment by not using so much electricity spinning all those drives all day and by not running yet another noisy/hot machine.</div><div><br></div><div>Don't forget about the network bandwidth you're saving by keeping all your myth data local. Everyone in my house noticed when I stopped throwing video all over the network.</div><div><br></div></body></html>