I’m building a new lower power server to replace my Athlon64 4600++. The new box is going to use a Gigabyte motherboard, and AMD energy efficient CPU, and a couple of Western Digital “Green” drives.

The new system uses 100W; nearly 40W less than the current server, which is a substantial saving when the box is on 24×7. Disk performance will not be as good as I’m using a four disk raid5, versus the current six disk raid6, and the drives are slower than in the current server.