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Re:36TB FreeNAS Home Server Build by existencebox on Thursday January 14, 2016 @10:23PM (#10906933)
Similar to what sister posts say; I have a reasonably large home fileserver (one of these http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA6ZP3K293... with dual xeon 5606's and 12 non-green 7500 RPM disks) and don't find it makes me surprised in terms of consumption.

Power bill for the apartment typically runs me ~80-100$ a month, (I'm mildly embarrassed that this is the metric I gauge my server by as opposed to true avg. wattage) not insane, higher than I might like though. I'll likely shrink to whatever the latest gen of that neat Intel mini-itx server board they recently released is, when the big build starts to go, but I'm not sure how much that will end up helping.

Re:36TB FreeNAS Home Server Build by aroch on Friday January 15, 2016 @09:27AM (#10909463)
Your $/kWh is important though, $80 in your area could be $200-300 in others