[mythtv-users] 30 minute freezups

Carl Fongheiser carlfongheiser at gmail.com
Fri Dec 19 18:21:59 UTC 2008


On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 12:13 PM, Jan Ceuleers
<jan.ceuleers at computer.org> wrote:
> Carl Fongheiser wrote:
> While your approach is sensible and rational, I think that the price of
> electricity does not reflect the true cost, mostly because much of it is
> based on "commodities" that we cannot replace, such as coal, oil and
> uranium. Only the cost of recovering those commodities and turning them
> into electricity is reflected in the price we pay. We have an obligation
> to use as little power as possible.
>

I don't disagree, actually.  It's just that hard drives are pretty low
on the payback scale, and

> On top of the above argument (which I'm not trying to convince you of),
> I prefer to spin unused drives down for reasons of reduced heat
> production and security (I also unmount them).


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