Comment on Is this a bad option for a home server?
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
I was worried about the power usage when I first started using my old gaming CPU for a home server (i7-4770k). I bought a kill-a-watt, ran it plugged into that for a month, saw that it was using pennies worth of energy per month and never worried about it again.
Unless you’re pegging the CPU at 100%, it’s not going to be pulling the full 65W. As far as maintenance fees go, the cost of replacing a single hard drive will likely overshadow your energy costs.
Pro tip: keep an eye out for hard drive deals on black fri. And I recommend doing a burn-in run on any new drives when you get them to push them past the initial failure window of the bathtub curve (I used badblocks
. Took nearly a week for the initial run, but I found one bad drive and was able to RMA it immediately instead of finding out the hard way).
qaz@lemmy.world 7 months ago
How high are you electricity prices? Mine are €0,40/kWh.
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
I don’t have my bill in front of me, but for my state it looks like mine’s effectively around €0,10/kWh. So yeah, more expensive for you.