Am Samstag, 8. November 2014 schrieb Felmon Davis:
On Sat, 8 Nov 2014, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Am Samstag, 8. November 2014 schrieb Felmon Davis:
folks,
hoping to drink from the font of your wisdom.
I have a NAS through which I can pipe printing via cups. it works fine but I wonder if it wouldn't save electricity to get a dedicated print server and only use the NAS when I am doing serious backups.
btw my problem with kpowersave not showing configuration options was solved (sort of) by restarting /usr/sbin/hald. long for a cleaner solution. that's a different topic.
what about NAS vs print servers?
F.
Anything that consumes power when you do not use it is a waste of some kind, at least of money.
Nik
yes, of course.
so the question is: would a print server consume less power?
I assume either it is not on all the time - perhaps hibernates? -, or one can turn it on and off without damaging it? (I don't want to be switching the NAS on and off alot.)
F.
If you do no hard disconnect from the power line for both printer and printserver / NAS it's not worth the efford.
Nik