Similar to what sister posts say; I have a reasonably large home fileserver (one of these http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA6ZP3K29345 http://

Similar to what sister posts say; I have a reasonably large home fileserver (one of these http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA6ZP3K29345 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.