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PieMePlenty@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Sell. I don’t run a data center and I’m not a cloud provider. I have a meager home server with some stuff plugged in and serve some tv shows. I want this to be as low foot print as possible. If it goes over 10w idle, I’m shutting it down lol.

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Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
If I remember correctly, every watt is around $1 a year. So a 100 watt server costs $100 a year every year to run. 12 SAS drives and the server is going to be expensive to keep running.

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- AceBonobo@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  1W would be 8.769kWh per year. Pricing is regional.
  
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Dumbkid@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Damn 10watts? My server has a 5800x in it(my old cpu) and I have never seen the system pull less than 130watts

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- PieMePlenty@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yeah a lot of people will say to just use your old PC thats lying around and it is a great way to start and learn but if you want something with a lower footprint (low power, quiet, cool) you’re better off buying something more suited to that task. Laptops or mini PCs are much more suited to that.
  
  Id love to have a server rack one day but I just cant justify it drawing so much power and I can live with the drawbacks of a smaller server.
  
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jkrtn@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
What’s your hardware? 10w sounds great to me. I just started a new build and have to play around to see if I can get better C-states while idle.

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- PieMePlenty@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  11th gen NUC. Much faster than a RPI4, more power if needed (for things like Zigbee USB adapters, external drives…) while still maintaining low power draw on idle. Neofetch Temps
  
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