low power linux PC?

[Frank DiPrete]

Bill McGonigle wrote:
> 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.

For what it's worth I've had good luck with WD's this year and abysmal 
experience with seagate, so things may be looking up for you. 8.5 watts 
is *nice*.


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