Comments by "basspig" (@basspig) on "Wolfgang's Channel" channel.

  1. In my part of the us the utility bill got so high that I could no longer afford it no matter how much I cut back on electricity usage. So I built an off-grid solar powered system with battery and inverter and for solar panel arrays. So now we no longer use grid power but I still like to economize on computers because they run 24 hours a day and run the battery down overnight.
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  2. The last mechanical hard drives I owned used 14 watts a piece. I had 10 of them in my video editing workstation in 2008 and it pulled a lot of power. I've since switched to all solid state drives which use about a quarter of a watt each so that was my biggest savings and energy my editing workstation uses 62 Watts at idle. Now I also bought a small fanless mini computer for my web server that uses between 10 and 15 watts and that's on 24/7. It also uses two solid state drives.
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