finding cheap hardware for Linux?

troy fryman at sonic.net
Fri Jan 5 18:05:40 PST 2001


On Fri, Jan 05, 2001 at 09:54:39PM +0000, E Frank Ball wrote:

> } 
> } Am i totally off on my assumptions?
> 
> Partially.  I don't think the 486 uses too much power.  I can't comapare
> it to a K6-2, but it will use less than a Pentium of any flavor.
> Athelons are the king of power consumption (but damned fast).  Old hard
> drives are power pigs.  They are also way too small and a reliability
> issue.  That said I have twin 1GB SCSI drives in my 486/66 (they were
> free).  I'm about to build up a Pentium 60 with one 1GB and one 2GB SCSI
> drives (also free).

I had a feeling you'd come through...

An Intel support page lists the good 'ol 486 66 as drawing 975mA @
5V, slightly under the 1060 mA for the 3.3V P100
Your inherited P60 (the last of the 5V CPU's) will draw ~ 2360mA

> I used to have a stack of 8" drives at work that were 660MB each and
> took 2.5A at 5V and about 1.5A12V.

At least your computer room would stay warm.

-t



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