Ok people, this will be my 3rd WHS. Love the format, wouldn't change but I got the following issues so hear me out please.
My current set up works great, main problem is its expensive to run!!!!! Its 4 years old now and I need to upgrade to something not necessarily faster, but more econmical. I worked out cost for keeping this running for 1 full year 24/7 is $588!!! i estimate the power consumption to be approx 220w
Currently running WHS 2011 on custom build case with 7 WD green 2TB drives (10.7W each), very basic ASUS budget MB with 2Gig DDR 2 and celeron dual core cpu.
I installed lights out and it tells me I can't hibernate only suspend my machine, plus start up takes forever!!!!
FOR 2014
I'm thinking new motherboard that will enable hibernation via lights out, (plus WOL via internet apple app), perhaps a SSD startup drive for quicker wake up from hibernation, more power efficient cpu and PSU as well as usb3 and faster sata for all my drives which i will be keeping.
Not built for a while so bit out of the loop with new components so love some recommendations please....