On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 09:01:14PM -0600, Garth Hill wrote: > >> Of course, if you really want quiet, http://www.fit-pc.com/new/ > I recently built a dev box using a Shuttle barebones. It has more guts > than the Fit PC and claims 35w idle / 55w load. The Fit claims > 3-5w--does that seem reasonable to you?
Yes, since that's what I measure their power draw at. 5 watts while the hard drive is active, 3 when it is inactive and the machine idling. > I put a Western Digital GP (Green) drive in it, and that hd alone > uses like 5-6w in idle. Without doing any research, that sounds like a 3.5" drive. After looking at the URL below, I see it is a 3.5" drive. One of my fit-PCs indidcates: [ 38.396542] hda: Hitachi HTS541660J9AT00, ATA DISK drive I'll let you google on that to dig up the stats. It's a 2.5" drive. I don't quite see a 3.5" drive fitting into the fit-PC case. > That being said, that Fit seems nice at > $300. Very nice. I have two in service, one as a firewall/router, the other providing other network services. I wouldn't use it as a dev box. I might use it as a smart terminal or web browsing box, though. I'm thinking about fitting one out with a power supply and display for a carputer. > Shuttle K4500: > http://us.shuttle.com/KPC/techspecs.html > > Western Digital GP: > http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=338 -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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