On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 15:33 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 18:02, wrote:
> >> John Holland wrote
> >>
> >>> You could use a 2.5" HDD. The Momentus has a typical usage
> >>> specified @
> >>> 1.5W seek and .7W idle.
> >>
> >> Thanks for pointing out the low energy consumpti
Am Donnerstag 18 Februar 2010 schrieb Björn Wetterbom:
> I've used a Freecom 2.5" drive for a couple of years with good
> results. USB powered of course.
I'd say go for a 1.8" external usb hdd.
Same wear-cycle as a 2.5" drive ( MTBF ~> 50.000 hours ), but uses even less
power.
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Björn Wetterbom wrote:
> I've also used an external WD 3.5" drive which I am very pleased with,
> and since WD offers a wide variety of 2.5" drives at good prices I
> would go for one of those.
Thanks for that suggestion. I've read several recommendations for WD 2.5"
drives, so I'd like to go tha
Doesn't look like these are sold anymore, but I bought one 4 years ago
because when I first read about issues with flash memory and the
NSLU2s, I knew I needed a rotating magnetic disk, and this was the
smallest USB one money cold buy:
http://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-WDXMM60WPN-Passport-Port
On Feb 18, 2010, at 12:55 PM, Björn Wetterbom wrote:
I've used a Freecom 2.5" drive for a couple of years with good
results. USB powered of course.
I've also used an external WD 3.5" drive which I am very pleased with,
and since WD offers a wide variety of 2.5" drives at good prices I
would go
I've used a Freecom 2.5" drive for a couple of years with good
results. USB powered of course.
I've also used an external WD 3.5" drive which I am very pleased with,
and since WD offers a wide variety of 2.5" drives at good prices I
would go for one of those.
/Björn
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 18:
John Holland wrote
> You could use a 2.5" HDD. The Momentus has a typical usage specified @
> 1.5W seek and .7W idle.
Thanks for pointing out the low energy consumption of modern 2.5" HDs.
Since others mentioned that SD is even less suitable for my purpose, I
think I'll go that route.
Can anybod
On 18 February 2010 14:49, wrote:
> I don't really want to use a harddisk because that would mean a manifold
> increase in energy consumption of the system, which now uses <<10W. Are
> there any brands of USB sticks that other users can recommend that are
> more resilient? Or what mass storage d
> I've also been thinking about getting a SheevaPlug or its newly announced
> successor GuruPlug and using the internal SD card as mass storage. Does SD
> have less problems that USB sticks when used instead of a harddisk, or
> would I run into the same issues?
In my experience SD cards have even
On 18.02.2010, at 15:06, "u7l1...@mail.lrz-muenchen.de"
wrote:
> I don't really want to use a harddisk because that would mean a
> manifold
> increase in energy consumption of the system, which now uses <<10W.
You could use a 2.5" HDD. The Momentus has a typical usage specified @
1.5W seek
Dear List Members,
this is not really a Debian question; if there is a better place to ask
this, please let me know.
I've been using a NSLU2 under Lenny as a very energy-efficient server for
logging my solar heating system. Since I need very little storage space, I
decided to use a 2GB USB stick,
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