4 ms·
Just install a low power CPU. You can get one on eBay delivered for a little more than USPS 1st class shipping. Most of my devices, including my NAS, consume 25
by generalpass 7y ago
Just install a low power CPU. You can get one on eBay delivered for a little more than USPS 1st class shipping. Most of my devices, including my NAS, consume 25-35w, so up to 15w additional consumption, as checked with Kill-A-Watt.
Ever do a tiny load of laundry to get one shirt clean? You've just used something like a year of computer running.
Do you run your air conditioning while your refrigerator exhausts into your kitchen? I call that a kitchen heater. You're heating a cooled space.
I find for whatever reason, tech people all worry about the energy consumed by tiny devices.
- edgineer 7y agoThere are other power usage concerns beyond cost. For example, if a small room can't have air conditioning you might want only very low power devices to keep from heating it up.
- zrm 7y ago~35 watts isn't actually all that much heat load, and that's what you get from the likes of a business-class Core i5 at the loads routing packets would put on it (i.e. basically idle). Something like Atom or AMD Bobcat is <15 watts. Another thing to keep in mind if you're worried about power/heat is that 3.5" spinning rust can pull >5 watts per spindle. I've seen 15K drives pull close to 20. But an SSD is close to nothing and so are most 2.5" laptop spindles.
- generalpass 7y agoI'll concede that a small closet can get pretty warm from even lower power devices. However, as long as the CPU isn't overheating and the space is clean and dry, it doesn't matter.