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On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Michael Hampicke <gentoo-user@××××.biz> wrote: |
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>> Spinning disks consume surprisingly little power once they're up to |
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>> speed. My GPU, by comparison, doesn't seem to reduce heat generation |
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>> very much when relatively idle. |
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Idle on a GPU (in Linux) might be more when the screen is black. I |
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don't even know how to drive my GPU hard. It's just not part of my |
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life here. Maybe certain games or something? |
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> When I built my NAS box I did meassure the power consumption of my box, |
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> first with one HD, then two, three and so one. And I figured that one of |
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> my (Samsung) HDs uses about 5 Watts when running idle. |
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That's very consistent with the WD numbers I found. Something like 6W |
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idle, 8W max, etc. for my RAID Edition drives which are not WD Green |
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drives which likely have lower numbers. |
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Point is that there's little power saved in a box with 6 drives going |
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from max use to idle, etc. But I know you know that! :-) |
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Anyway, we're getting similar results is what it sounds like to me. |
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- Mark |
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