Comment Re:Newer, just to reduce the power bill (Score 1) 272
Same thing going on here. My desktop and media centre used to be always on. Now I've sorted out standby mode properly (3W in standby, wakes in about 4 seconds), and just the server stays on permanently.
My server was at its peak using 11 drives: 5 x 400GB, 6 x 500GB, which made quite a bit of noise, and used quite a bit of power. When I worked it out, I reckoned there was about 50W power to be saved. I decided to get rid of the RAID configuration, and replaced them with a pair of 1.5TB greenpower discs. A small cut in capacity (3.6TB down to 3TB), but it cut the machine power usage by nearly 60W - over £60/year.
I've got a box of 14 discs that are now just offline backups, although the server now also has a pair of 2TB greenpowers also.