<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><div>On 16 Jan 2015, at 20:44, Hika van den Hoven <<a href="mailto:hikavdh@gmail.com">hikavdh@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Hoi Henk,<br><br>Friday, January 16, 2015, 8:14:41 PM, you wrote:<br><br><br><blockquote type="cite">On 16 Jan 2015, at 19:47, Henk D. Schoneveld <<a href="mailto:belcampo@zonnet.nl">belcampo@zonnet.nl</a>> wrote:<br></blockquote><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br>On 16 Jan 2015, at 19:03, Jan Ceuleers <<a href="mailto:jan.ceuleers@gmail.com">jan.ceuleers@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">On 16/01/15 11:36, Henk D. Schoneveld wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">I would suggest check power-consumption first with a Kill-Watt device,<br>most PSUs are way to big and are most efficient when loaded at > 75% of<br>max capacity. HD’s don’t use that much power.<br></blockquote><br>Power supplies need to be dimensioned not for average load but peak<br>load. Which occurs at boot when the disks all spin up at more or less<br>the same time.<br><br>So unless you have a fancy controller that spins the disks up one by one<br>you need a lot of headroom on top of the system's average load after boot.<br></blockquote>You can watch what booting needs, you’ll probably surprised how low it is. Of course you can also encode multithreaded and see how high it goes.<br></blockquote>MAX TDP of X4 B50 =95W<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Under max. load with 5 - 8 drives it will < 150W<br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><br>You made your point. But, running stationary to close to max can<br>decrease live expectancy and increase chances of instability, where<br>the latter also goes for running to low. Plus not leaving space for<br>incidental peak loads.<br>So a save bet in my estimation is to take twice or a little more than<br>the stationary use.<br>While maybe not optimal in power consumption, it ensures maximum<br>stability. Which I think is the main objective.<br></div></blockquote><div>Satbility in my opinion means that where 3.3V is required that it will be always available as well as the 1.0V and 2.2V etc Voltages. </div>Evidence please.</div><div>I’ve run i5 3.3GHz cpu’s encoding multiple files at once on a 12V 75W external PSU, draws 90W from the wall, according to a Kill A Watt. No problem running foor hours.<br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br><br>Tot mails,<br> Hika <a href="mailto:hikavdh@gmail.com">mailto:hikavdh@gmail.com</a><br><br>"Zonder hoop kun je niet leven<br>Zonder leven is er geen hoop<br>Het eeuwige dilemma<br>Zeker als je hoop moet vernietigen om te kunnen overleven!"<br><br>De lerende Mens<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org</a><br><a href="http://lists.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users">http://lists.mythtv.org/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users</a><br><a href="http://wiki.mythtv.org/Mailing_List_etiquette">http://wiki.mythtv.org/Mailing_List_etiquette</a><br>MythTV Forums:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://forum.mythtv.org/">https://forum.mythtv.org</a></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>