I bought a used Coffee Lake era Xeon 2224G workstation with 32GB of ECC RAM to use as a NAS. It uses 15 Watts at the wall measured with a killawatt while streaming 4K with Plex.
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imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Nah. I dissagree. My dedicated NAS system consumes around 40W idling and is very small sized machine. My old PC would utilize 100W idling and is ATX-sized case. Of course I can use my old PC as a NAS, but these two are different category devices.
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 days ago
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I want to reduce wasteful power consumption.
But I also desire ECC for stability and data corruption avoidance, and hardware redundancy for failures (Which have actually happened!!)
Begrudgingly I’m using dell rack mount servers. For the most part they work really well, stupid easy to service, unified remote management, lotssss of room for memory, thick PCIe lane counts, stupid cheap 2nd hand RAM, and stable.
Still want to stop wasting ~100 watts of power per device though… That stuff ads up, even if we have incredibly cheap power.
oftenawake@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
I use my old pc nas as a 50w continuous heater in my lab-shed which is a small stone outbuilding. Keeps it dry in there!