Hi guys,
I'm looking at getting one of these or a Synology Disk Station.
My one query is does the HP MicroServer support the same kind of energy saving that the Synology Disk station delivers? I read that the Synology is able to hibernate until a request is made from the drive.
A bit of Googling brings up this thread (http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=346154) that suggests running something with a 200w power supply could go up to about 60p a day. Also willing to listen to any flaws in the logic posted.
I realise that may be a theoretical maximum but it's something I'd like to avoid.
Also I'm unaware of how the Synology system actually works (whether its just wake on LAN that you have to setup or something) but is this functionality that FreeNas could add? I'm unable to find any reference to anything that suggest it does but I don't quite know what term I'm looking for
Cheers guys!
Roy
From earlier in the thread:
Yep
Very roughly = 24hrs x 50w x 8.5p/kw (going rate) = 11p per day to run, or £3 per month.
Because it's not got a sleep mode as such to reduce wear on the box you could always use a power off on idle software, and then WOL to bring it back up.
Freeware shutdown program:
http://www.chameleon-managers.com/
"Chameleon Shutdown allows you to switch off, restart, hibernate the computer and perform other operations both immediately and when certain conditions are met (specific time, delay, idle time, CPU usage, closure of a certain program).
You can add multiple conditions without limitation.
The interface supports skins and is very easy to use."
Then create a batch file on the desktops of relevant PCs in your network to wake it back up again using mc-wol command line, again freeware:
http://www.matcode.com/wol.htm
I use WOL over the Internet as well which comes in handy