On Apr 26, 2015, at 10:38 AM, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > How much power does it use if powered is applied but not enabled? It > could well be that Seb's powering it from the same strip that switches > the computer on might be the only really workable solution. That I would > think would satisfy any legal requirements for energy conservation that > might exist in the users locale. >
It isn’t about saving power but about my design for the emergency stop circuitry. > I am likely one of a very few that leave my atom boxes on 24/7, based on > the theory that the most dangerous time for a hard drive is the low > speed where the heads don't fly on the film of moving air in the drive. > That is direct contact with the platters which will enhance the rate at > which they fail, either from the heads and platters becoming so polished > they stick like Joes blocks and cannot get started, called stiction, or > one or the other galls and tears up the other. Classic head crash. By > the time I have 100,000 hours on a drive, it will often claim less than > 100 powerdown cycles. An atom box powered up is less than 20 watts, no > measureable heating. What’s a platter? ;-) My systems of late have SSD. No spinnie stuff. -Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
