[chbot] IBM Blade server, and Linux

[Mark Atherton]

Why don't you want it disposed of at Molten Media ?


At 12:32 p.m. 9/01/2014, you wrote:
>On Wed 08 Jan 2014 14:49:49 NZDT +1300, Mark Atherton wrote:
>
> > 24 x (1G RAM, 74G HD, 3G Xeon processor -- HS12), with 4 PSUs, each
> > capable of 2kW
>
>That's 8kW. How are you planning to connect that up in your house?
>Charles' response gets the cake!
>
>Let's say it actually draws 1kW. That's 24h * 365 days = 8760 kWh per
>year, plus the inconvenience of constant ear plugs. Given this kit is 8+
>years old you are truely looking at a historic piece of current-day
>junk. For this money you can by a pile of small-case PCs with more
>computing power and a fraction of the electricity demand. They're also
>faster to install Linux on, if time is of concern to you. Unfortuantely
>the geek factor and especially the crazy factor are not nearly as high.
>
>So you take your preferred pick.
>
>You can bring it to the next meeting and we can all say a ceremonial
>good-bye to it if that makes you feel better. Community support,
>spiritual connectedness to ancestry and such. However in the interest of
>eco-friendlyness please do not dispose of it at Molten Media.
>
>Volker