After a hard day in the office, just before closing the ‘shop’ for the day, I took a look at my new office wattage monitor thingy.<\/p>\n
1.8Kw<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING! I screamed at myself, feeling absurdly guilty for living. Then I realised it was the backups causing 20 odd hard disks to spin ‘off their hinges’.<\/p>\n
Time for a change<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
<\/p>\n
Off I went to checkout hardware monitors, review my knowledge of Microsoft’s PowerCFG commands and all sorts of other, hopefully useful information to reduce power consumption.<\/p>\n
First up – make sure every machine, (that doesn’t ‘t need to be on all<\/em><\/strong> day), switches itself off after they have finished their tasks. Easy –\u00a0 run an automatic script on those machines\u00a0 to shutdown on completion.<\/p>\n
Next, change the BIOS settings to start them up, at their allotted time.<\/p>\n
Thirdly, set all machines to a ‘power saving’ plan – if at all possible.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Finally, at the end of their life, swap out 7200 RPM disks for more energy efficient lower RPM disk – if at all possible.<\/p>\n
Net result?<\/p>\n
550w saving.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I would say that’s worth having – wouldn’t you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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