On Friday 31 August 2018 18:20:20 Warren Young wrote:
> You’re giving two very mixed signals here.
>
> “Old Pentium,” as someone else said, can mean anything back to 1993, but “4
> TB drive” suggests something far newer than that.
>
> I ask because that affects the expected energy draw of the server. If it’s
> old, it could be 200 W or so. If you’re using “old” rather loosely, then
> it could be down in the double digits.
>
> Here’s why it matters:
>
> https://www.rapidtables.com/calc/electric/energy-cost-calculator.html
>
> At 12 pence per kWh — typical for power in some places in your country,
> based on your TLD — it’s going to cost you about 1 pound per watt consumed
> if it runs all day every day. If it draws 35 W, that’s £35/yr. If it
> draws 200 W, that’s £200/yr.
Hi Warren,
I had considered power consumption but only with regard that it is a small
footprint system, both physically and in terms of processing power etc.
I had not considered the lack of energy efficiency. The server has a MSI
MS-9628 board with a Pentium M processor, and the one modern 4TB HDD.
There is one tiny fan in the PSU and another tiny processor fan on the CPU.
>From this I (possibly wrongly) assumed power consumption would be low.
It used to have 2 x 1.5TB drivers with software RAID until that died.
I am still in the process of installing lubuntu so I don't know how effective
it will be. I had considered putting Centos6 32-bit back on, but has been
said elsewhere that's very near EOL. Having said that, some of my (soon to be
replaced) SAMBA boxes are still runnning F9.
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