Some pics attached. The current version of the dinosaur Win10 machine hosting 5 internal and 6 external drives. With hindsight, and with an intermediate build, I am going for Wintel and cranking it up to 20+ drives in the external perspex housings with two fans per 8 drives. This will make use of my many cheap 2TB drives. At 11 drives it consumes 105 watts with the 24 inch monitor on and 85 watts with the monitor on standby. So that currently supports only 32TB of storage on 10 drives, but it could support up to 20 x 16TB = 320TB at an estimated power consumption of 200W total. On a 24x7 basis, that is currently 0.2kW x 24 hr x 30 days x £0.16/kWh = £23 / month. 282 plots up 15% from last week.
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