On 18.05.2012, Reindl Harald wrote:
buying a cheaper machine than 800 € results usually in buy much more machines in a relative short term
Maybe for you, but not for folks who hardly can afford a low end machine. Not having a computer is no longer an alternative these days either.
cheaper than disks killed by power-cycles and my current homeserver eats around 50-60 watt at normal operations - you can run this machine some years before costs for electricity beats costs for a single disk dying due power cycles
You are quite obviously not clear over that most of the people using computers do not know at all what a power cycle is..