Re: Hard Drive Spin Down
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:33:11 -0400
"Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@vianet.ca> wrote:
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> Or, the cheapest external multi-drive enclosure I've found is called
> someone's old computer. Turn it on when you want to do a backup, backup
> over rsync or NFS, and turn it off. If it does wake-on-lan you could
> script it all from your main computer.
But IIUC, the power draw, especially of an old and probably energy
inefficient computer, is much higher than that of a dedicated external
disk enclosure. I currently use an old computer, but I'm planning to
try some sort of home built NAS (openwrt on a router and an attached
external drive), and I'll see how that goes.
> Doug.
Celejar
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