[Gllug] Wanted - small (20, 30, 40gb) ide disks for kids' computers

[general_email at technicalbloke.com]

Nix wrote:
> On 19 Nov 2009, general uttered the following:
>   
>> http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/power-saving-guide,1612-11.html
>>
>> On average it says you can expect to save 10w using a 2.5" over a 3.5"
>> and I assume the OP will only be using older recycled drives. Most 2.5"
>> use half a watt while idling and draw up to 4w at peak load so they're
>> pretty power efficient. 3.5"ers idle somewhere between 3.5w and 9w.
>>     
>
> Yeah, that really *is* power-efficient. Of course they do this by
> devastating performance :( you don't really notice it on your iPod
> but it's really noticeable under any kind of load.
>   
Actually, one other recycling trick I probably should have mentioned is
to get hold of some small, ex server, 10,000 rpm fast SCSI drives and
cheapo SCSI cards off ebay and use those for the system disk. The
performance of those would be substantially better than old notebook
drives and, as it's considered yesterday's technology, they shouldn't
cost too much.

Roger.
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