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A raspberry pi with external HDD running is about 5W. That's 130 kWh less than a FX160 over an always on year, or $27 at average Australian energy prices. Sure
by ezzaf 9y ago
A raspberry pi with external HDD running is about 5W. That's 130 kWh less than a FX160 over an always on year, or $27 at average Australian energy prices.
Sure these servers might be handy for some things, but the Pi still has a lot of advantages. For me it's small form factor, low power consumption and GPIO.
- unlmtd 9y agoThat's 5mg per kWh. My models tell me we're going to reach 300mg/kWh- then you'd pay for a RPI every day.
- DamonHD 9y ago> ... but unless I need the GPIO ports or the ability to run off a battery ... And I indeed do run mine (off-grid) from a battery where every W counts, and I do use GPIOs and ADCs! http://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-Raspberry-Pi-2-setup.html http://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-Raspberry-Pi-2-setup.html And (along with my pony) I want a system so widely used that most questions/issues can be solved with a cut-n-paste into Google!
- fpoling 9y agoI have used such pi setup to enable a distributed backup with pi and the disk placed at a remote office. Worked really nicely. The only inconvenience was Ethernet cable that I have to pull to a storage room. Now with WiFi it would be even simpler.