Unfortunately no one can be told what fun_plug is - you have to see it for yourself.
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I was bored while watching my DNS-323 sit there. So I thought I see how much power it really uses. Pulled these from my UPS monitoring software, seems fairly consistant on a number of runs.
This is with two Seagate 320gb drives.
off 0 watts (ya think?)
Initial boot, pre-disk spinup 16 watts
Initial boot disk spinup 63 watts
Idle with disk spinning 16 watts
Web access 16 watts (no change from idle)
reading/writing files 31-39 watts variable
printing small files 16 watts (no change from idle)
printing large files 31 watts (spool to disk?)
Idle w/ disk in power save 8 watts
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Great job LifeTap,
The power consumption depends largely on the disks attached, I have a couple of 750GByte disks in the FC5 server and they are quite power hungry.
If they had been in the DNS-323 the readings would have been 20 Watts over your figures, nearly twice as much when idle and running hot.
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Watts consumed: PC / XBOX / Wii / PS3:
http://www.hardcoreware.net/reviews/review-356-2.htm
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I second these measurements, I've a power meter to test it.
BUT: 'off' consumes 6 Watts. (the network led is still lit even in OFF state and the power brick is a bit warm)
(using two 7200/500GB Samsung drives and the energy consumption values don't differ much)
Last edited by phoenix (2007-03-11 05:16:15)
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