Have you considered putting your children in one of the storage freezers? /s
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lka1988@sh.itjust.works 2 months agoPerfect, I don’t need to run the fans anymore!
Seriously though - we have 5 kids, and feeding the little shits is expensive, so we freeze a lot of things for storage.
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Personally, I just don’t ask questions I don’t want the answer to.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Lat I checked, it was 40w idle for me on the kill-o-watt. Spinny rust and all!
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Last.
lka1988@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I know they’re gonna be a power suck lol. Three mini PCs, a SFF PC, 4-bay hard drive docking station, 8-port switch, and a RPi0w… Hoping for a max of 200W, but I suppose we’ll see what happens 🫤
catloaf@lemm.ee 2 months ago
You might need to lower your expectations
lka1988@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
FYI - the cluster is pulling 115 watts.
All running multiple VMs (Docker and other) and LXC containers.
I’m impressed, honestly. I was expecting 200+ watts minimum. It’ll be interesting to see the spikes as it’s used over time.
lka1988@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Yeah… I know. 🙃
VonReposti@feddit.dk 2 months ago
I see your 4-bay docking station and raise my 20-bay storage server. I even stopped counting how much the hardware costs for it :p
lka1988@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
It’s attached via USB to a 2014-era Mac Mini. Honestly not a huge fan of it.
The kicker is that I’m upgrading it to a 7th-gen based server soon. My dad gave me an old Pentium 4-powered HP Proliant DL110, the case of which has 10x 3.5" drive bays, and is fully ATX compatible, so I’m gonna drop in a 7th gen mobo with Pentium G4560T (already have that on my desk), a newer PSU, and an HBA card. Don’t need a ton of processing power for a dedicated NAS running OMV - just a lot of expansion capacity.