Comment on Small NAS home server woes

Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m aiming for a low power build, that should be rather compact,

  Considering that OP was targeting an N100 I don’t think an old Xeon, especially one without integrated graphics, would be close to that.

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  • chellomere@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yeah, old Xeons tend to not be very low power, also I don’t think I’ll be able to find one with a mini ITX board to fit it in a compact case. Also, I’d probably need to add a discrete GPU, which adds to the cost and power consumption.

    I want a low power build to limit heat and noise produced in my office room, to limit the electricity bill and as I understood it the case I’m considering also doesn’t have the best thermals, so I don’t want to put a CPU with too high a TDP into it.

    The ReadyNAS 626 actually has a Xeon D-1521, but with a quite low TDP - 45W.

    Regarding budget, I’m aiming for 400-800$. The N100 option, including case and PSU (but not disks) is at the lower end of this, while the 8500G and 13100 options are at the upper end.

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    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I got a sff P330 Xeon with integrated graphics for ~$500 two years ago that includes case power supply etc. Far faster than an n100 and even lower power than if you added a GPU to an n100.

      I just plugged in a kilowatt to check:

      My Lenovo sff workstation running Plex idles at 15 watts- which is 90% of the time. Streaming 4k 52Mbs hevc (This Flash Gordon is my torture test that caused me to upgrade 2 years ago) it’s 18 watts! I was so surprised that I went back and unplugged the Ethernet thinking I put the killawatt on the wrong server.

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      • chellomere@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Interesting, I’ll investigate this!

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