[mythtv-users] power usage

[Steven Adeff]

On 5/21/06, Marco Nelissen <marcone at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Since I sort of started a thread about power-usage a while ago, I
> thought I'd share the power-related results of my RAID-adventures.
>
> The RAID I built uses 90 Watts when idling (rather than the 200
> Watts I'd guestimated). That's for an nForce4 motherboard, AMD
> Sempron 3100+ and 5 300G disks. One of the disks is a spare, so
> could be put in standby for a savings of about 8 Watts.
>
> For comparison: another server I was using had a Pentium-II at
> 266MHz and a single 30GB disk. It used 30 Watts when idling.
> I moved the functionality of the old server onto the new server,
> so I've really only increased my total power usage by about 60
> Watts, assuming I leave it running all the time like I did with
> the old one.
>
> If I had known about the AMD Geode processor before starting to
> build this machine, I would have seriously considered using that
> instead though: 6W at 1GHz looks pretty good.

One question I always had was, what does a dedicated RAID box draw for
power in comparison and does it make sense to purchase one instead of
building a whole computer instead?
One of the nice things is they usually hold 8+ drives (as opposed to
the 6/8 I've seen in some of the cheaper rack mount cases), but a
dedicated computer can be used for spare processing, like commercial
flagging....

-- 
Steve
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