<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">>> It's more cost-effective to buy a big new hard drive and replace<br>
>> what's there than to run another machine. Newegg had a 500GB drive for<br>
>> $69 this morning.<br>
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</div><div class="Ih2E3d">> Except for this sentence that wrote last post<br>
> "I do have one other 120gb drive i would like to<br>
>> put in my Mythbox but there is no room in the backend box."<br>
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> I dont want to have a tower machine in my theater. I have a mATX Home<br>
> Theater case that can only hold 3 drives. If i remove the myBook that has<br>
> 2x250 drives and if i add the 120gb thats a total on 6 disks....<br>
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> If i use a old machine how long would it take to cost me ~130 in Power?<br>
> Considering its a AMD 1800+.<br>
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</div>Hard to answer that without knowing for sure how much power your proposed<br>
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...<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.<br>
<br>Mitchell<br></div></div></div>