> Oh, for goodness sake! The BPi uses less than 1 ampere at 5V.
> That is under 5W, or 120 watt-hours per day. In a year, it will use
> less than 40 KWH. At $0.12 per KWH, that is $5 or less, for full
> year in operation. The external enclosure will no doubt use more,
> although if it hosts SSDs, then perhaps not. Is $10 or $15 a year
> really a large burden for you?
The question is not whether I can but whether I should.
>> I've had to deal with 2 failed drives over my lifetime so far ;-)
> You must be quite young or else not do much computing.
I don't do much computing, I guess (but I'm a CS professor and a Free
Software developer in my spare time, so I do use computers for most of
my waking life).
> Three to 4 drives a month is about average, for me.
I have a total of 9 drives currently "in use" (i.e. which I'd have to
replace if they were to die). I suspect you have many more.
Stefan
