From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 2 00:22:02 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id AAA04648 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 2 Dec 1995 00:22:02 -0800 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA04643 for ; Sat, 2 Dec 1995 00:21:58 -0800 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id SAA21270; Sat, 2 Dec 1995 18:53:52 GMT From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199512021853.SAA21270@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: No Thumbs??? (lack of concensus) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sat, 2 Dec 1995 18:53:52 +0000 () Cc: dgy@rtd.com, freebsd-hackers@freefall.freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <3594.817858677@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Dec 1, 95 02:57:57 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1410 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > > > Yeah but power is power. If you dissipate 10 - 15W, it doesn't matter > > *what* is dissipating the power! So, 2X would be in the 20 - 30W range > > (comparable to the tape drive). > > Actually, you and I both know that's not true because we know that > power dissipation is only part of the equation. There's also the > question of *where* the power is turning most fully into heat and how > effective your air conditioning (or other heat transfering > metal-to-metal contact) is at that point. And you're not considering duty cycle either, nor average vs. peak power consumption, or thermal mass for that matter. It's not that disks produce lots of heat, more that they _dispose_ of it poorly, so over time they become quite hot. A tape drive, on the other hand, produces most of its heat in the various motors involved, which are open to the air and thus dissipate their heat more easily. > Jordan Jordan was right on the money with disk drives != tape drives. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 041-122-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[