Re: Turning off the hard disk by Don
Don
Mon Apr 14 17:03:36 PDT 2008
My pleasure to share. If I sounded a bit unconcerned regarding the cost of
power it was because I'm located in the Northwest and the cost of electric
power is lower than the National average. To have a 60 watt light bulb on
for 24 hours the cost is 11¢. Normally about a third of a day is actual
use, 3 or 4 cents.
But I do like your attitude on conservation and waste avoidance. You'd be a
good engineer.
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Don
Vancouver, USA
"Peter Buttuls" <ye025@victoria.tc.ca> wrote in message
news:%23oIJw9nnIHA.1208@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Don, THANKS for your reply. The power savings you mention ARE important
> to me. I
> get after my wife if she leaves more than 2 light bulbs on. It's too bad
> the fans don't get turned off because on my old computer BOTH fans burned
> out even though I used the computer only 1 day a week for 8 years.
>
> Peter
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> "Don Schmidt" <Don Engineer@PNB.Retired_1987> wrote in message
> news:JpSdncpFDYE74WfanZ2dnUVZ_g6dnZ2d@palinacquisition...
>> Anything you do to the computer will start the drives spinning again,
>> move the mouse, touch a key and probably even pushing the reboot switch.
>>
>> I don't believe your fans will stop spinning even with the hard drives in
>> the off mode.
>>
>> As far as saving any money, not much, for it's my experience that with a
>> 2400 dual core cpu, two 10K RPM hard drives, 19" crt monitor, power
>> speakers, printer online, scanner on, it's less than 300 watts of power
>> being consumed. Same as the cost of having 5 sixty watt light bulbs
>> turned on. (Actual consumption according to my USP readout is 238
>> watts).
>>
>> Actual meter reading of my USP power consumed (everything goes through
>> it), 2.5 amps. 2.5 x 120 = 300
>>
>> --
>> Don
>> Vancouver, USA
>>
>>
>> "Peter Buttuls" <ye025@victoria.tc.ca> wrote in message
>> news:ek3OjgNmIHA.4712@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I would like to save power and also not to repeat having to replace both
>>> my fans, as happened on my previous computer, by using the "turn off
>>> hard disk" feature reached from "Control Panel"> "Power Options" after 1
>>> hour, say, but my book does not explain what do I do to "get the power
>>> back on".
>>>
>>> 1) Do I just press a key on the keyboard, say
>>>
>>>
>>> 2) Is the state of the system then still there so I can continue my work
>>> or do I need to do something else ?
>>>
>>> Thanks, Peter
>>>
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