In his recent Home Media Server Guide, Brian Won of Ars Technica briefly discusses the heat and space issues involved with packing lots of hard drives in to a personal server. Since these problems are handled nicely by cases such as the Cooler Master “Stacker” line and the Antec Nine Hundred, I started thinking about power consumption.
My question then became whether it would make sense from a financial perspective to pay extra for larger hard drives which you could then use less of, thus burning less power.
