low power linux PC?

[Bill McGonigle]

On Apr 7, 2008, at 23:10, Bob King wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 11:04 PM, Ben Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>
>>  I suspect the hard drives will be pushing things.  Figure 15 watts
>> per disk.
>
>
> Startup  watts for the laptop drive I used in my new router was 4.5  
> watts.

I've got a set of the Western Digital 'Green' drives coming in  
tomorrow (whoops...today now):

8.5 Watts - only 5400 RPM though (so I'm expecting to cache  
aggressively).  I'm trying to build a quiet, powerful 1U server so  
every Watt counts in keeping the fans slow (quiet).  We'll see, WD's  
haven't been so reliable for me.

-Bill

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