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    #21
    I'm loving my DS3400 which is overkill but is bulletproof. It's fibre only but got Luns mounted on a server and NFS'd them out.

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      #22
      Sure the electric company loves your DS3400 too.

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        #23
        Originally posted by unixman View Post
        Sure the electric company loves your DS3400 too.
        Sits at 245w with 24tb, an adequate compromise, those spin down Arm proc whatever's do my box in going to sleep and being unresponsive....

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          #24
          Back to the future mode:

          TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY-FIVE WATTS ???!!????

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            #25
            Originally posted by unixman View Post
            TWO HUNDRED AND FORTY-FIVE WATTS ???!!????
            But it does keep your house warm all year.
            Will work inside IR35. Or for food.

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              #26
              Originally posted by VectraMan View Post
              But it does keep your house warm all year.
              Cracking piece of kit - rock solid and no waiting for disks spinning up and/or timing out or tulipty throughput.

              The QNAP I had before was only 4tb and did about 80w but I got peed off with its slowness and just becoming totally unresponsive and needing a kick and sometimes a raid rebuild. None of that shiit with this baby, in fact I have an EXP300 expansion shelf to slap on it when I get some disks for it after I remortgage lol!

              Not metered that - might do that tmrw, should be less cos no canisters on it...

              It's paid for itself and it's current usage, taught myself fibre SAN on it which helps the rate, plus it's going into hosting hall for Plan B stage 2.

              I have an Oracle 7120 Unified Storage box too, 12tb, now THAT uses some power! Does fibre, NFS, iSCSI, CIFS, the lot.....

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                #27
                If you want the low hassle approach go synology or qnap. If you have more time and enjoy tinkering go hp micro server

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                  #28
                  Originally posted by VectraMan View Post
                  But it does keep your house warm all year.
                  I get twitchy if my home server collection goes over 10W.

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                    #29
                    Originally posted by unixman View Post
                    I get twitchy if my home server collection goes over 10W.
                    You sure you're not confusing amps with watts?

                    Just got the meter hooked up to the MacBook and it's sat at around 40W.....

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                      #30
                      Originally posted by stek View Post
                      You sure you're not confusing amps with watts?

                      Just got the meter hooked up to the MacBook and it's sat at around 40W.....
                      No. My always-on home servers are based on low power tech - a sheevaplug and a coupla pies.

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