Re: Hard Drive Spin Down
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 13:46:30 -0400
"Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@vianet.ca> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 12:35:17PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
...
> > 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.
>
> My 486 only uses about 20 watts with one 6 GB drive going but it won't
> see a some 6 GB drives and anything larger. My P-II takes about 40
> watts with a 6 GB drive. I haven't measured my dual-P-133 Tyan.
Hm, that's lower than I expected.
> Remember, for just file storage, especially for backup, you don't need a
> lot of processing power unless you are moving a whole lot of data over
> e.g. a gigabit ethernet to a raid array and want to keep both at full
> throughput. But if that's the case, a simple external disk enclosure
> can't match that speed either.
I understand that I don't need much processing power; that's why I was
thinking of an embedded solution, i.e. openwrt on a router.
> Doug.
Celejar
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