If you have to pay the worker $50 an hour compared to $30 is what sets the prices..Along with competition..and your whole theory falls apart with Texas rates..
Con Edison in New York 39 cents /kwh = $100 a year in added electrcity costs.
Holy shit those unions up there fuck you guys in the ass huh?
Texas is 8 to 11 cents /kwh.
Looks like a good bang for the buck computer> I built two of these for my friends twins. Like a $30 case,PSU was included and had a motherboard tray if you can believe that. lol
PSU died or the mother board died or bad power switch.
You can disconnect the PSU connections then use a paper clip to trigger the PSU to see if the PSU fires up. That would eliminate if it is the PSU. If the PSU works reconnect to computer and disconnect the power switch button on the mother...
Actually it is very cheap. Any old computer will do. There is a free version that lets you use 3 drives to try it out. Then there are upgrade levels. The computer boots from a flash drive. A 6 drive license is $69 and the 23 drive is $119. Unraid has been around for years. It is linux based so...
I have been using Unraid for 3 years now without a problem. I now have 13 TB of storage and I can add up to 23 drives with it. I use it to store music, pics and bluray videos that I stream to 5 computers and 1 media streamer in my house plus stream to friends on their ipads, kindle fires...
http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=104&cp_id=10407&cs_id=1040702&p_id=2667&seq=1&format=2
I use two of these in my Unraid server. Plug and play been running 24 hours a day for over a year without fail and is CHEAP!