LessWatts.org launches

LessWatts.org launches

Posted Sep 21, 2007 14:50 UTC (Fri) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
In reply to: LessWatts.org launches by joey
Parent article: LessWatts.org launches

I've seen a lot of people replace some overpowered home server with a nslu2 that draws less power than the _fans_ on the system that it replaced.

Makes sense, too. A slug (as we happy users tend to call it) draws about 8 W (plus some 10 W for an external hard drive), while a home server will likely draw over 100 W all the time -- and that is while not doing much at all. This means a difference of maybe 80 W, and therefore you save some 60 KWH per month. At 0.10 € per KWH you are saving about 6 € a month. At 80 € the slug pays itself in 13 months.

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