Comment on Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discovery
dogma11@lemmy.world 2 days agoHard drives, especially spinning discs, and RAM are probably the biggest factor at idle. I dropped my servers’ idle draw from 220w to 180w by dropping it’s RAM and replacing some older drives.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 2 days ago
People underestimate how more RAM can be more power usage.