[mythtv-users] Discussion: system layouts to reduce power consumption

[sonofzev at iinet.net.au]

>I have the same goal as you have (to save the bills). Currently my FE
>+BE, when idle, consumes 90W (when recording or playing it's naturally
>more) and I believe that splitting the system to low power BE (I hope to
>get under 50W without that hungry graphics card) and FEs based on nVIDIA
>ION will save quite some power (but I have yet to try that out). It's a
>question whether further splitting to ARM based MBE (~30W with the
>disks?) and tuner based SBE would help...
>
>Petr
>
Disks are quite power hungry and once you have a few (especially if using soft raid) it may be 
better to have a slightly more powerful CPU on your fileserver box to ensure performance (if 
using softRAID).... 


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