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<blockquote data-quote="Marcusb" data-source="post: 283338" data-attributes="member: 11550"><p>since you have nine drives, make sure you have them set to spin down when not in use first of all.</p><p>Each drive uses around 20 watts of electricity when just spinning and around five watts when in its low power state.</p><p></p><p>Since you have so many, you either have a LOT of media to store, or a lot of old drives added together. Maybe it is time to upgrade to a single 750Gb drive if that is the situation? These are very cheap and will give better performance and also probably make your data safer than if it's on a lot of older drives.</p><p>The side effect of this would also be to save you energy usage.</p><p></p><p>I know i'm just focussing on the drives here, but to me, this seems like an area you can probably cheaply and easily save some money and get a better result with minimal outlay.</p><p></p><p>Marcus.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marcusb, post: 283338, member: 11550"] since you have nine drives, make sure you have them set to spin down when not in use first of all. Each drive uses around 20 watts of electricity when just spinning and around five watts when in its low power state. Since you have so many, you either have a LOT of media to store, or a lot of old drives added together. Maybe it is time to upgrade to a single 750Gb drive if that is the situation? These are very cheap and will give better performance and also probably make your data safer than if it's on a lot of older drives. The side effect of this would also be to save you energy usage. I know i'm just focussing on the drives here, but to me, this seems like an area you can probably cheaply and easily save some money and get a better result with minimal outlay. Marcus. [/QUOTE]
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