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Does using fewer large drives in a server save enough power to matter?

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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.

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