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  • Does RAMCloud change the energy equation for a datacenter?
  • What if discs were essentially never turned on? Would this improve energy usage dramatically?
    • After a very quick glance around:
    • current HDs: 9W active, some 8W idle, some down to 5W, 1W standby
    • current SSDs: 2.5W active, 0.06W idle
    • so, perhaps the elimination of up to 8W per disk
    • could save 80kW or on 10k machines, or more with any redundancy
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