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decent NUCs are much pricier than old discarded hardware

This can be true for some, but for a lot of labbers the increased energy cost of enterprise hardware will exceed the cost difference of the NUC over the expected life of the equipment. That doesn’t mean it’s an obvious choice to go the other way; it’s just something you should consider.

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EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Good point. I actually have a watt meter coming in the mail tomorrow. Will measure the idle consumption of the r430 and report back. This thing sits mostly at under 10% except when running backups or the machine learning algos for nextcloud image recognition.

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- lemming741@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Your UPS doesn’t show power consumption?
  
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  - EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    It does but there’s a lot of other stuff connected that I can’t unplug. I ended up getting a kill a watt and since the server has redundant power supplies I checked by unplugging one at a time.
    
    I’m using 168W on an R430 with 2 E5-1220’s and 128 G and 8 spinners.
    
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- SheeEttin@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  It should have power monitoring in the idrac already.
  
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  - EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Good Point, idrac has issues on this server, I’ll take another crack at it and see if I can get it going.
    
    I tried with powerstat and powertop but no dice
    
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