Save yourself £100 on the leccy bill. Unplug some stuff.

[Dr. Z]

Originally Posted by Mark

If it's plugged into the laptop it'll be drawing power for the battery charging circuit, so unplugging in that circumstance isn't a bad thing.

DRZ, what fileserver do you have? .2A is quite low for a non-laptop computer (laptops can easily get that low at idle with the screen off).

Tis just a celery-based contraption I rigged up on the cheap. My poweredge doesnt draw anything like that at idle!

I was quite suprised too - but I suspect that I had left it idle for so long the drives had spun down, reducing the power consumption considerably. I am also using one of those antec high efficiency PSUs, so maybe that has something to do with it?