Google suggests a cost £20 a year for electricity if it is A rated. An old C rated fridge may be using 2 to 3 times that amount of electricity. So you could save £40 a year on the electricity. So a 4 to 5 year payback time at best.
Probably - or at least sleep them. It would also make sense to shut down the printers and scanners when you're not using them. What proportion of the time that they are on are they in use?
10 mins what for? The desktop PC's to boot, that's a bit excessive. Mine is slow probably 2 or 3 mins, long enough to make a cup of coffe anyway. It does get switched off, makes me more productive. No, "I'll just quickly (ha!) check email/usenet" when I'm passing the machine.
Inaccesable sockets can be solved for =A35 by three remote controlled sockets from Asda.
This thread has prompted me to see how much the stuff on the UPS is taking. It never drops below 23% load on a 750VA UPS, so thats around
170W, half of my night time base load... Hum, maybe it is time to look at low power miniITX based server instead of the current 800MHz PIII.
the scanners take forever to warm up,Pcs well this one about 30 secs, BUT its backup runs over night. The wife's G5..a minute or so.
interesting.
I can thoroughly recommend this: I have an Atom 510MO board..in the smallest case that would take two disk drives. Its faster than the PIII it replaced..64 bit and a gig of ram, and gigabit ethernet.
Not always the problem it seems. Decent flash will cope with a lot of write cycles (over 100,000 IIRC) - it depends whether your writes are spread around or concentrated into a few areas - and whether the unit has any decent wear levelling circuit.
To put it in context, a decent flash (eg Transcend) assuming a few GB size upwards written over an over from start to finish, continuosly will last (MTBF estimate) some decades.
Putting a swap file on a cheap unit however will not.
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