Power Draw readings FYI & Benchmarking

[Socaltom]

I've got a little power monitoring device called a Kill a Watt. I hooked it up to my pink pogo and all the other associated power drawing components ( 2 HD and 1 USB hub). Minimum power draw was 15 watts. This highest draw I saw was 18. I'm running hd-idle, so I thought I would see more of a drop when the drives weren't in use, but 15W seems to be the bare minimum.

I also ran the Scimark2 perfromance tests through the Phoronix suite of tests from the repository. Has anyone else run these? I'm expecting delivery of a Pro later this week, I hope to compare the two. It might be nice to add some performance numbers to the comparisons of the hardware.
Tom

[Socaltom]

So here are the Scimark results
Composite = 7.94 Mflops
Fast Fourier = 3.84 Mflops
Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation 11.38 Mflops
Monte Carlo = 6.01 Mflops
Sparse Matrix Multiply = 8.98 Mflops
Dense Matrix Factorization = 9.51Mflops

Tom

Link to the results
http://openbenchmarking.org/result/1105 ... OGOPINK486

[slycat]

Id like to try this out on my pro (give me time to finish other things before I can run benchmarks).

Thanks for the info on the power drawn by your setup. A project I have going on here in school is to fully go green on my plug, using a series of solar cells with a automatic power-switch to a battery or my home's power for nights (in the idea/design phase, no progress yet). Since I got the plug to save electricity in the first place instead of my noisy Windoze server.