Using old disks drives

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Monday 03 December 2007, William Donzelli wrote:
> > I think that an RL01/RL02 + a small 11/23 or 11/03 actually takes
> > quite a bit less power than most dual-socket, dual-core Xeon
> > servers do these days...
> >
> > Of course, an RM0[235] or RP0[3-7] is a different matter...
>
> Who cares.
>
> When it comes right down to it, in the US at least, power is pretty
> damn cheap. Turning on a large system - say one that sucks up a
> couple or three kW - for the weekend really does not cost all that
> much. And it is for fun, right? How much do we spend taking a girl or
> the wife out for dinner and a movie? It will be much more than what
> you spent on electricity to feed your computer for a couple of days!
>

For the weekend, sure.  I meant more like running it 24x7.

Pat
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