[mythtv-users] My perfect HTPC

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Thu Oct 7 19:37:29 UTC 2010


  On 10/7/2010 15:02, Gavin Peters wrote:
> On my BE, the six drives consume 5.5w each at idle, for 33W.  Divide 
> by 80%, and we're at 40w or so of load, call it 30 kwh/month.  If you 
> let the BE drives spin down when not in use, and record to SSD, you're 
> likely saving quite a bit of power.

Or you could record to normal hard drives, and spin them down when not 
in use.  Recording and playback is only going to occur for a couple 
hours a day, and even then you only need to spin up those you are 
actually using.  That 30kWh/mo is going to be cut down to well under 
5kWh/mo.  Makes the SSD option considerably less economical.


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