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Re: Hard drive to connect to Superhub 2

WHS doesn't inherently use any more electricity to run than any NAS. It's the hardware you run it on that uses the electricity.

WHS can easily run on a machine that uses less power than a VM Superhub.

Re: Hard drive to connect to Superhub 2

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Originally Posted by Kushan (Post 35716673)

How much did you figure it was running, adduxi?

Can't put a figure on it now, my memory is getting on a bit! But it sure made that much difference it was very noticeable on the quarterly bill.

The QNAP runs at most 20w with 3 disks, and 11w when it's in sleep mode.

However the HP Server was loaded with 6 disks and a 500w PSU. Granted it was never in sleep mode as it did slightly different things over the NAS, e.g. backed up all WHS clients on every login.

So not quite a true comparison.

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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq (Post 35716676)

As always, I can't argue with that ;)

Re: Hard drive to connect to Superhub 2

I should also mention, for other readers' sake, if you're thinking of building a power-efficient NAS, an old laptop with a few USB drives would be a decent bet. Laptops are, after all, designed around maximum efficiency and minimum power usage.