[Gllug] Home server

Richard Jones rich at annexia.org
Sat Sep 13 11:14:23 UTC 2008


On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 09:02:07AM +0100, John Hearns wrote:
> 2008/9/12 Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org>
> 
> > On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 09:13:01PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> > > I did promise last month to blog about my new home storage system:
> > >
> >
> From the blog, you are using three drives in external USB cases.
> That will mean three power bricks - do you have any thoughts on
> daisy-chaining the  connectors to one power brick? I guess the big
> disadvantage of that one is relying on a single PSU for all the drives.
> For a bigger system, I would think of external SATA - but of course that
> goes beyond the concept of a low-cost, compact box like this.

I have a power meter so I'll post some stats on how much power is
actually used by the whole system, under load, idle, etc.  Keep an eye
on the blog.

Rich.

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