2009/4/9 Alan Pope <a...@popey.com>: > 2009/4/9 alan c <aecl...@candt.waitrose.com>: >> I have a machine on 24/7 gently seeding various torrents and my >> pragmatic solution is to choose the oldest slowest machine that can >> cope, in my case a PII 350MHz. I have not done any measurements but my >> guess is that such a machine will consume relatively low power, >> obviously I turn the monitor off. > > You might be surprised if you check it. I have an old Dell optiplex > desktop PC which currently functions as my firewall - running IPcop. I > checked the power consumption and it's ~90W. I also have a viglen > which I will use to replace the Dell, and that consumes 8W.
Far from scientific I know, but I used to use a 486 Elonex as a firewall. It was passively cooled (i.e no fans), no monitor and hardly any load. My Dad worked out that it cost 50 quid a year in electricity to run and that was 7-8 years ago! So buying a new low power machine (the Viglen sounds good), can sometimes save money in the long run. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
