On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 10:57 -0800, Toby wrote: > The servers place is in my cellar, the SB is in my living room upstairs > and in a few weeks I have a new music-, reading-, television-room under > the roof. Than, there is also a SB. Reaching the server means walking > down THREE floors.
Mine is in the basement, which is cold and dark. I try to not go there. Plus having it in the basement means I don't have to listen to the fans when listening to my serious system. > What else should I do? Is there a low cost and eco friendly solution > for a server being up all the time??? I'm cheap, and willing to save the earth when possible. But I leave my computers on all the time. Most of them do not have monitors. Or go into standby pretty quickly. There are lots of arguments pro and con about turning things on and off. Most (many?) failures happen during thermal and electrical stress. I put the machines on a UPS and leave them running. Most get down below 100 watts when idle on their own. A SlimServer doesn't need a lot of CPU power, no need for a Pentium 4 power sucker. The real question is what is the actual saving between hibernation and being powered off? and at what duty cycle does the inrush power and startup overcome any theological savings? I tend to play music a lot on my SqueezeBoxen, it makes no sense to me to turn it off. Of the components in my music system, the PC is nothing. The class-A circuits in my Classe power amp overwhelm it. I bet the Benchmark DAC-1 draws as much as the PC, the Benchmark runs hot to the touch. -- Pat http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
