Hi Tim,
> > They look nice, I agree, but I've an eye on power consumption. Some
> > low-powered CPU with an SSD sitting as a buffer in front of hard
> > disks that occasionally spin up?
>
> HP Microserver consumes 29W with disk spinning.
I'm paying 12.39p/kWh at the moment, which I think is quite good, so
that makes it
29 / 1,000 * 24 * 365 * 12.39 / 100 = £31.475556 a year
Not bad. Out of interest, the Crucial MX100 SSD is about 3.4W under
load, 100mW slumbering.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/8066/crucial-mx100-256gb-512gb-review/8
But you'd need something low-power *with* SSD to hook it up to, so not
Raspberry Pi, Pandaboard ES, BeagleBone Black, ... Oh, and cheap. :-)
http://www.timj.co.uk/2013/07/building-a-tiny-low-power-linux-nas/ used
an Intel Atom mini-ITX board to get 14-15W.
Cheers, Ralph.
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