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Thanks for including energy usage in the article. I carry USB-C SSDs around the house for backups and storage of archived files. Of course this is a bit of a ha
by planb 4y ago
Thanks for including energy usage in the article. I carry USB-C SSDs around the house for backups and storage of archived files. Of course this is a bit of a hassle and I played with the idea of either buying or building a NAS. My current standby consumption for all computer stuff (access points, router, switches, a dozen or so microcontrollers and various SmartHome stuff, but not TVs, running computers or gaming consoles) is already above 100w and I would really like to bring this number down. An extra 30-60w makes it really hard to justify the purchase of a NAS ( that I don’t really need). I thought at least the synonogies would use way less power when not in use, so thanks for making me aware of this.
- memcg 4y agoI agree and plan to buy a Kill A Watt P4460 meter. My HPE Gen 9 servers were free, but I still would like to know the operating cost of a single server.
- bombcar 4y agoSome of that off-lease equipment idles pretty low - be sure to check the bios for all “energy saving” options.
- Spooky23 4y agoCheck out used Linux thin clients on eBay. They are in a raspberry pi price point but more performant and unusual. Energy use is very low.
- mtlynch 4y agoThanks for reading! Yeah, I've never thought much about power consumption, but I've done a few write-ups of previous builds, and I received a lot of questions about power draw, so I decided to measure it on this one. I was surprised at how much power the system consumed, and it will be something I think about more up-front on future builds.
- KaiserPro 4y agoThere are number of ways around this. If you are not after speed, then you can do a redundant array of cheap nodes. Instead of using raid, just shove in an 8-12tb disk in a number of thin clients. The key is that they spend most of the time turned off.