8 Jan
2015
8 Jan
'15
10:20 p.m.
On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 06:41:46PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
I am building a backup server machine and I'm trying to minimise its power requirements.
In that case do the sane thing and use an SSD which will use approximately sod all power or put the OS on a small partition at the front of the backup disks and mount them noatime. Or use a laptop disk, I really can't believe that the power usage of the disks is in any way going to be significant (and if it was then an SSD will be cheap) or just network boot the machine and write logs elsewhere.
Adam