01-19-2011, 05:09 PM
Do either of you know how many watts those actually use?
I try to be frugal with energy. When I get into my 2nd tier of electricity usage (above 800kWH a month I think), my rate jumps for $.125 kWH to $0.165 kWH. Each watt costs me $1.50/year.
Not terribly expensive, but 60-watt server run continuously would cost $90/yr in electricity plus additional cooling.
Right now I use an 8GB flash drive connected to the usb port of my router. It consumes an additional .5W but I can only get about 3 MBps which is a limitation of the USB port. It's great for small files but all my mkv, avi and dvd media is still streamed from my imac to my media player. My imac is usually on anyway and I don't notice any performance issues while it's serving files but an NAS might be nice if I can run it cheaply.
I try to be frugal with energy. When I get into my 2nd tier of electricity usage (above 800kWH a month I think), my rate jumps for $.125 kWH to $0.165 kWH. Each watt costs me $1.50/year.
Not terribly expensive, but 60-watt server run continuously would cost $90/yr in electricity plus additional cooling.
Right now I use an 8GB flash drive connected to the usb port of my router. It consumes an additional .5W but I can only get about 3 MBps which is a limitation of the USB port. It's great for small files but all my mkv, avi and dvd media is still streamed from my imac to my media player. My imac is usually on anyway and I don't notice any performance issues while it's serving files but an NAS might be nice if I can run it cheaply.