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On Sunday 30 August 2015 18:26:49 Mick wrote: |
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> Modern appliances with Green stickers on them (whatever they're called) are |
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> more efficient by design. To some extent this is also true with PCs. I |
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> still have an old Pentium 4 32bit running a couple of test environments and |
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> back up storage. I can assure you that the room gets hot after it has been |
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> running for a couple of hours! :-) |
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The desktop machine I'm referring to (an Amari "workstation") dates from 2009. |
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It has an i5 processor, 16GB RAM* and two 2GB SSDs as the main power sinks. It |
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sits (runs) in a boxroom 6ft square and keeps it comfortably warm. I haven't |
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noticed any change in ambient temp since the SSDs replaced spinners. |
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* Whoever named that Random Access had a strange understanding of English. The |
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last thing I want from memory is random access! How much better it would have |
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been to call it something like Direct Access. Oh well - much too late now. |
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Rgds |
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Peter |
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