Re: Power supply efficiency on older model Sun equipment
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rather late responses... " From: "D G Teed" <[email protected]> " " I agree that the Sun hardware is more robust than " the chaos of PC hardware vendors. At first I searched for an " inexpensive and low power Sun to fill my requirements, but I don't " see anything from Sun capable of 300GB sata disks for " less than $500. I don't run mission critical services at home " so I have gone the path to reduce expenses (we didn't get " a raise this year, while living expenses are rising). there must be a pci sata controller on the solaris hardware list... lsi chipset? " From: Ken Hansen <[email protected]> " " [] " " As for power savings, all you would save would be the power consumed " by the CPU itself - the chipset, disk, etc. would still use just as " much power as a similar modern system, but running a handful of 1 TB " SATA drives would consume much less power than larger number of " smaller SCSI drives (one 300G SATA drive stores about as much as five " 73 Gig SCSI drives, and would use 1/5th the power I assume), so in a " forklift upgrade, you could see some serious power usage reduction, " but I agree using that as a cost-justification is probably a weak " argument. yeah, but -- those 73G drives could be in a raid5, so that if you lose one you lose nothing, but if that replacement 300 goes... if you have enough data to fill a rack of 73s, replacing them with a few 300s in a raid would be imho better than a single 1T. ________________________________________________________________________ Andrew Hay the genius nature internet rambler is to see what all have seen [email protected] and think what none thought