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Not the person you're responding to, but I have the S2600CP2J w/ dual E5-2670, 128gb ram, 8 2-3tb drives + an ssd and I draw ~120 watts at idle (~3% cpu usage). 100% load is around 300-350 watts. No external video card.

Great budget server, motherboard + 2xCPUs + ram were just under $500 from NATEX, intel server case + PSU was $100 from ebay.

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100W idle is quite a lot in absolute terms, and more than I'd like because my boxes tend to run 24/7 (as do yours, I assume), but I suppose for the sheer amount of hardware you're running it's actually pretty reasonable.

So energy cost would be about €240/year where I live, assuming permanent idling. Not exactly cheap, but you get what you pay for I guess :-)

Thanks a lot for the info, and congrats on the sweet rig :-)

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