Craig, James (IT) Wrote: > BTW, how did the original poster work out £2 a day for electricity costs > for their P4 server? >
I've no idea - that's a completely wacky figure. At 10p/kWH (pulling from my distant memory of UK power prices) that's something like 800W. In reality, figure about 100W MAX (probably less given that it's idle most of the time), which is 24p a day (or 90 quid a year). Even assuming the ReadyNAS uses half the power of a PC (45W was quoted earlier), you're looking at 3 or 4 years just to break even. But then again, a P4 would hardly be my choice for a power efficient server platform :) A nice cool Athlon XP, or Sempron, or even Celeron would work just fine. Mine's an Athlon XP with no video, no sound, thermal fans (rarely speed up) and a bunch of drives. I haven't measured it (one day I will) but I'd be astonished if it were over 100W. -- radish ------------------------------------------------------------------------ radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22662 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
