Just how much -is- a kwh of electricity in rural Hawai'i? If you're concerned about power usage (and I am too - at 0.193/KWH), don't forget to pay attention to the power used by the disks. Currently, the current champs (GB/KW) are the WD "green" 1TB. Also think about -not- using a RAID - just make sure you have a backup. Even if you only backup once a week, how much change was there in your music library over that time? Then there's wake on LAN (WOL). The idea that your machine will be in suspend (S3 is best) when it's not actually -doing- anything. Make sure whoever's building a PC for you knows you want this, as it's typically an on-the-motherboard capability. Processors - last time I checked, the Intel processors had an advantage (performance/KW) over AMD. Depending on your cost of a KWH, this may undo any cost advantage that AMD might have. Chipsets - there's some variability in power usage between chipsets. I'm out of date on this one, but you might want to google for something like "chipset poser usage" Power supply - spend the extra $$ on an "80+" power supply. I've had only good experiences with Seasonic PSes.
I'm not really familiar with the horsepower inguz needs. Were it not for that, I'd be pointing you at one of the new Intel 'atom' processors. These were designed for really low power usage (mobile). It might be worth asking on the DIY forum if anyone's built a SC server with one of these - and if they're not running inguz could they please install it temporarily to see if it works OK. Oh - and rural Hawai'i would be... big island? Wet side of Maui? Molokai? Lanai? Make us all jealous... My wife's company moved an office to Oahu in the 80's and they were hot for us to both move there, but there weren't -any- software jobs there for me (the banks all said I was "overqualified") so we ended up not going. Yeah, Oahu's not rural, and I'm not a city dweller, which was another factor in our not going. Finally - is there anything going on in HI with solar? Here in MA (and in CA) there are -huge- tax rebates, both for PV and for heat/hot water. Enough that payments on a 10 year loan for the remaining cost on a "supply all the electricity we need" PV system would be the same as what we're paying for electricity (tied to the grid - battery systems are still 'way expensive). Hard to say no -- bobkoure ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bobkoure's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=14646 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=47243 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
