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It really depends. My home server uses about 120w idle (older series i7 with many disks). It comes out to about $25 a month in electricity. That’s enough to wh
by dev_dull 7y ago
It really depends. My home server uses about 120w idle (older series i7 with many disks). It comes out to about $25 a month in electricity.
That’s enough to where you should make sure it’s worth it, and ask yourself if you’re better off with a higher end NUC or even raspberry pi, which use orders of magnitude less power.
(We have solar so I don’t really worry about the power consumption anymore)
- chronogram 7y agoWow what a difference! My laptop shows about 2-3 watt idle (brightness low of course). What a huge difference in power consumption over the years. Do you think that’s mostly the hard disks using the power?
- Max_aaa 7y agoMy home server is basically my old laptop. It is a Dell Latitude e6540, just sips power when not under heavy load. with a 4 core i7 and 16 GB of ram, it is more than enough for home use. for storage, it has a m.2 SATA ssd for the root partition. And 2x 2tb hard drives that are raided with zfs for the home and network share folders.