3 Dec
2007
3 Dec
'07
11:53 a.m.
On Monday 03 December 2007, William Donzelli wrote:
For the weekend, sure. I meant more like running it 24x7.
Pat
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I think that
an RL01/RL02 + a small 11/23 or 11/03 actually takes
quite a bit less power than most dual-socket, dual-core Xeon
servers do these days...
Of course, an RM0[235] or RP0[3-7] is a different matter...
Who cares.
When it comes right down to it, in the US at least, power is pretty
damn cheap. Turning on a large system - say one that sucks up a
couple or three kW - for the weekend really does not cost all that
much. And it is for fun, right? How much do we spend taking a girl or
the wife out for dinner and a movie? It will be much more than what
you spent on electricity to feed your computer for a couple of days!