Ralph wrote:
You can request a manual in email.
I'll take the time to answer your recent email question here, the answer would be no, NASLite won't support the power management your asking for.
>realname: Art Doyle
>organization:
>email: artdoyle@xxxxxxxx
>comments: Is there any way I can get unlimited (well 64 disk) >expandability via Firewire with full disk standby support (spindown and >hibernate)?
>media: Dvarchive.org site
Well, here's a rationale for power management:
We just "retired" a Rebyte NAS (
http://www.rebyte.com) and excessive power appetite was one of the factors involved.
A 3W EPIA motherboard , two high efficiency drives, and a high power factor power supply were used on this project. Despite this - power use stubbornly clung to 53W.
Now 53W doesn't sound like much, but in an "always on" environment it represents $49.68/yr . @ a 5% cost of capital, that translates into a $994 liability....and I'm betting that a Windows solution would be <1/10th that figure. Flushing $994 vs $94 ...... hmmmmmm.
Your NAS design would likely be superb running on an old 300mhz Thinkpad equipped with one of those new Seagate Momentus drives - *if* you could curb Linux's power appetite.
Windows once had this same problem. Thinkpad power consumption is 23W using standard 98SE. It drops to 12W when you add software to enable processor sleep. Use Windows 2000 on a Thinkpad and the power drops to 12W without activity. It drops to < 1W (beyond my measuring tools) when you place this same unit into standby.
If none of these money arguments hold any sway with you - consider your personal impact to the resources available to the youngsters who may actually need those kws we're throwing away here. APM represents almost zero pain - and a lot of good.