Thread: Power consumption of Atom board/system

Great! Thank you for the detailed information. Seems like that's something even I can manage. Did you measure the power consumption of your sheeva + drive? It's always on, right?

Don't have anything to measure, so have to trust the values from wikipedia. "2.3w idle no attached devices, 7.0w running at 100% CPU utilization" The values can also be found in their forums by different people having measured it.

I measured mine and idle with SD-card inserted it takes 3 watt, while scanning the music library it went up to 4.

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