My main problem with labbing is the noise (I live in an apartment). His servers are mostly small PCs, so I think the most power draw is from the disk drives. If

My main problem with labbing is the noise (I live in an apartment). His servers are mostly small PCs, so I think the most power draw is from the disk drives. If you need the storage, say for the cameras and whatnot, I'm not sure that running a laptop instead would save that much power.