Mark Lanctot;219487 Wrote: > > An argument that frequently comes up is "I don't want my computer on > 24/7, it wastes power." People see the power supplies in PCs, 500W + > these days, and assume the PC uses 100% of this power 24/7. This is > not the case. Sure, there have been some power-hungry architectures in > the past (NetBurst - i.e. Pentium 4 and the worst of all, Prescott) but > processors older than that (Pentium III) or newer (Core) are much more > power-efficient. With some smart thinking (i.e. don't install two > high-end graphics cards in SLI, don't even use a monitor at all) I bet > power consumption of a dedicated PC would rival that of a NAS. I measured my MythTV media center machine some months back, it has a AMD 64 bit 3500+ processor. The power usages of that machine was 100W during reqular usage. But this computer hasn't been built at all with power usage in mind, so I suspect there wouldn't be a problem to create a SlimServer computer which uses less than 50W in average. SlimServer certainly doesn't need a 3500+ processor to run good. I saw some test on Mac Mini without a display where it used about 30-40W in average.
I'm not sure how much a NAS consume, I suspect it might be a bit less but probably not much. I think the real power save when using a 24/7 computer is to make sure that it is configured to shutdown/hibernate and/or shutdown disks when not in use. shermoid;219491 Wrote: > 1. i volunteer at a local radio station, playing space music at nights. > i can literally unplug 2 cables (power and ethernet), and bring all the > music with me, in one box. no PC necessary! > > 2. i can have only one device turned on (the readynas), and hear music > all day long. i do not need to turn on the readynas AND a pc, when the > readynas can run pre-compiled SS versions itself. so, that's less > power, and a couple fewer fans to create white noise in the background. > the readynas itself is pretty quiet. > > 3. although this next bit has disadvantages as well, i do not need to > muck around with slimserver on my pc. that also means i can't take > advantage of SS's open source nature. however, once installed and > running, i do not have to deal with any slimserver issues until i > upgrade. due to the huge amount of trouble i had last time, i probably > will not upgrade again. the 6.5.1 SS version has more features than > i'll ever need. all it has to do is play music, and i'm happy.Wouldn't a > computer like the Mac Mini or similar be able to do all this as easy ? I can understand that it feels complicated if you have both a NAS and a computer, or if you have a computer with connected keyboard, mouse and monitor. But IMHO this is not what you should compare with. You should compare with a standalone computer with no monitor, keyboard or mouse. This only require a network cable and a power cable to work. It can be pretty small, for example a Mac Mini a VIA EPIA solution a laptop or something similar. -- erland Erland Isaksson 'My homepage' (http://erland.homeip.net) 'My download page' (http://erland.homeip.net/download) (Developer of 'TrackStat, SQLPlayList, DynamicPlayList, Custom Browse, Custom Scan, Custom Skip, Multi Library and RandomPlayList plugins' (http://wiki.erland.homeip.net/index.php/Category:SlimServer)) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ erland's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3124 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37416 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
