On 10/07/2019 09:37, Bob Eager wrote:
On Wed, 10 Jul 2019 09:35:17 +0100, T i m wrote:

On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 05:28:40 +0100, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:

On 30/06/2019 21:35, wrote:
On Sunday, 30 June 2019 21:05:34 UTC+1, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:
+1. BUT I have found an old mini-tower PC that was essentially given
to me as scrap will take up to 4 SATA drives of terabyte level size,
... ....a pi would cost more!

What about the electricity consumption though?

Well its not huge. About 25W I reckon

I bet it's higher than that, depending on how 'old' the hardware was
(from my practical measurements of such things).

Depending on the age of the SATA drives, they can be up to about 10W each.
Even my relatively modern microservers take about 25W-30W each, plus
disks.

The SATA drives are probably the newest thing in it. Drives do not last
more than about 5-7 years. MoBos last a lot longer .

But you need the drives whatever is driving them - pi or Intel





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