It's a fairly high-power machine; however, it is in regular use by upwards of a dozen people, though only I use it as a desktop (and that is a concession to waste-avoidance; servers should not ordinarily have desktop software running on them). When it's possible to have 3 TB of RAID storage in my laptop, perhaps this will change, but I expect that by then I will have outgrown the current RAID.
In 3 years or so it might be worth replacing it with a nettop and a couple of large external drives, but at the moment a desktop with internal drives is the only sensible way to maintain that much storage in a live state. I *use* my hardware regardless of its proximity to my current location; for those who do not, perhaps shutting it off makes sense. Also, with a comment like that you had *better* own a Prius. ;-) --DTVZ On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Alan Johnson <a...@datdec.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Drew Van Zandt<drew.vanza...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I find that a desktop is better than a laptop, for the home office bit at > > least. I don't have to wait for boot/shutdown, keep dragging power > supplies > > out, etc. > > <OT> > I apologize in advance if I am preaching to the quire and this is just > a super-low-power appliance-like machine that runs all your edge > routing and house hold systems while you are away, but Dude! Shut > that thing off when you are not using it! Global Warming, Peak Oil, > national security... All of those are relevant, but in case you > "choose" not to "believe" in any two of them, any one of them should > be enough to get you to change your habits. If you don't have kids, > do it for my kids, eh? > </OT> > > Ubuntu is making great strides in boot time. Also, I saw my Ibex boot > time cut in about half (discarding BIOS and GRUB pause) when I > installed a Kingston SATA SSD in my laptop running Ibex. (SSD is also > good for reducing energy use.) Jaunty is quicker, but does not like > my hardware. I have high hopes for Karmic Koala which is suppose to > load in less than 10 seconds off disk (YMMV). Just enough time to > plug in your power cable if you are quick. ;-) > > -- > Alan Johnson > a...@datdec.com >
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