Re: Hard Drive Spin Down
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 6:01 AM, Douglas A. Tutty <dtutty@vianet.ca> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 04:26:17PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
>> 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:
>
>> 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.
>
> I can see going that route if physical space is an issue, however you
> may find that a used laptop (e.g. with a broken screen) is cheaper.
> Many local computer stores take in old boxes for recycling; perhaps one
> of those for $25 would do everything and be chaper than the router.
>
> One way to reduce the power consumption is to not put a big PSU in the
> box: efficiency is quite low in the low-percentage output range. I'd
> rather have a 100W PSU running at 50% (still overkill, but I haven't
> seen a 50W PSU) than a 500W running at 10%. The former will suck less
> juice from the wall.
>
> Then look at what you put in the box. Instead of a high-end (even if
> cheap) video card, use a generic PCI card, assuming that the board
> doesn't have integrated graphics (like my 486 has). Of course if your
> box will boot without a card at all (once you get the BIOS set up), so
> much the better. Set the box to use serial console.
>
> As for performance, consider if you'll be encrypting the data over the
> network or transfering by NFS and compressing on the backup box. My
> 486 couldn't keep a 10 MB/s ethernet NFS share saturated if I expected
> it to create the tarball.
>
> Doug.
>
>
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Hi
Can't you compress it on the client machine?
Neil
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