Poll - reliable sleep operation with Windows?

[Graygeek]

Originally Posted by Pinan

Um...to save power when not recording something?

+1, and it's amazing how much less dust buildup there is in the system

[trini0]

Originally Posted by Pinan

Um...to save power when not recording something?

+1

[wayner]

I have got a least a couple of thousand dollars invested in hardware and software for my whole house Sage system so I am not going to worry about saving 60 cents per day (or whatever) in electricity. In my jurisdiction we have rates varying by time of day so overnight is the cheapest rates by far - about 50% of the rate of primetime.

If my average rate was 20 cents /kWh and my PC uses 200W more when awake than sleeping and if I could have it sleep for 15 hours per day then that is what I would save.

[Pinan]

Originally Posted by wayner

. . 60 cents per day (or whatever) in electricity.

That's $219 a year for just the one machine. Add up all of the "vampire" usage in the house and it can be amazing. But then, I'm really frugal. Our electric bill (Edison) averages about $60 monthly, and that's living in the desert. It's really kind of a game with me though. My car gets 60mpg.

[wayner]

I am well over $1000/month - the hot tub, pool filter (May-Sep), two A/Cs (Jun-Sep), sauna, PCs, etc keep the juice pumping.

[Pinan]

I hear that. The double edged sword of having a pool/Jacuzzi. I don't miss mine...much. Accept when it's 110°. Heh

Having a one story house saves a lot on cooling too, and the knees. Same size, just spread out more. My neighbor has the same sq. footage, but two story, and much higher overhead. He hates me, LOL!

Happy New Year everyone!

[davephan]

Originally Posted by wayner

I am well over $1000/month - the hot tub, pool filter (May-Sep), two A/Cs (Jun-Sep), sauna, PCs, etc keep the juice pumping.

Wow! You must have a very big home or your rates must be very high. Do you have electric heat? I pay about $100 - $150 a month for electricity depending on the time of the year, summer is highest when AC is needed.

Dave

[wayner]

Originally Posted by davephan

Wow! You must have a very big home or your rates must be very high. Do you have electric heat? I pay about $100 - $150 a month for electricity depending on the time of the year, summer is highest when AC is needed.

I have a very large house (about 7000 ft^2) and when the previous owners put on an addition they added additional HVAC for the other side of the house. So I have two furnaces, two A/Cs, two (gas) water heaters. This will increase costs but it is good for redundancy - if a furnace breaks when it is -15C then you can just move to the other side of the house.

And I have several PCs running 24x7, the pool, hot tub, sauna, two fridges, etc and two Sage servers - my productions server and a WHS machine that acts as a Sage backup.

[junkieofreality]

I always had trouble getting windows XP to sleep my HTPC server/head unit. But since I began using Autoshutdownmanager and setting it to monitor the read/write access of my recording disk and the network bandwidth for the HD300 Ive never had a problem with it sleeping.