Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2008 22:58:31 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: FreeBSD Mailing List <FreeBSD-Questions@freebsd.org> Cc: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Subject: Re: general questions about 7.0 and computer efficiency...... Message-ID: <20080805225813.T55449@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <20080805183320.GE60428@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> References: <20080805181926.GA24000@thought.org> <20080805183320.GE60428@Grumpy.DynDNS.org>
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> exactly what hardware you have. A good rule of thumb is 10W for each
> disk drive, but some were much higher. Pull the data sheets for your
> drives.
>
> A Kill-A-Watt on the power cord is the best way to answer the total
> question. My old ancient Dell Optiplex running 5.5 draws about 60 watts
> including the APS 350CS UPS. Am not about to unplug it without good
> reason:
>
> dkelly@AndrAIa {1004} uptime
> 1:30PM up 670 days, 21:08, 2 users, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
>
> I found a 10G drive in the trash yesterday. Would one day be a nice
> upgrade for the 4G drive in the above.
>
or add it, and use atacontrol detach/attach
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