On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 04:13:27PM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > ... > > If it's a desktop box, don't worry about letting them spin down at > > all, your speakers probably draw more power than your hard drive. > > Have you even felt how warm disk drives get? Yes. But this goes with any piece of mechanical equipment. Look at what's going in to it: 12V, DC. Anything you could run easily off a battery purchased at Radio Shack is adding maybe a penny to your power bill a month. Less than that outside the Pacific Northwest, we're still stuck paying for California's share of the electric bill. -- .''`. Baloo <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> : :' : proud Debian admin and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than to fix a system
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