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I'm possibly looking to build a home server later on in the year, but power consumption is a big thing to consider rather than start cost, as i dont want the elecci bills to be too high 
so the server must be as low wattage as possible. I dont really care about streaming videos, although coming to think of it, there will be music and videos stored on it, so streaming may be necessary (wired to desktop pc's). I know that does mean that the power requirement will increase though, so multiple opinions for streaming and non streaming would be nice.
I would be using it to store all the data from installers, music, videos, documents etc.. for each of the home PC's as well as a web server that i can use to store files for FTP, host website/s from and access my documents remotely.
Can anyone give me a good starting point for where to start? Cost isn't a problem, and i can build computers fine. Should i use an Atom CPU for the lower TDP, or is there anything else more suited for this that still has as low as possibly TDP?
so the server must be as low wattage as possible. I dont really care about streaming videos, although coming to think of it, there will be music and videos stored on it, so streaming may be necessary (wired to desktop pc's). I know that does mean that the power requirement will increase though, so multiple opinions for streaming and non streaming would be nice.I would be using it to store all the data from installers, music, videos, documents etc.. for each of the home PC's as well as a web server that i can use to store files for FTP, host website/s from and access my documents remotely.
Can anyone give me a good starting point for where to start? Cost isn't a problem, and i can build computers fine. Should i use an Atom CPU for the lower TDP, or is there anything else more suited for this that still has as low as possibly TDP?
