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It was well worth making the point, though. I recently bought a 2nd hand Intel NUC as a potential home server. Came with Ubuntu and used about 10 watt on idle.
by implements 4y ago
It was well worth making the point, though. I recently bought a 2nd hand Intel NUC as a potential home server. Came with Ubuntu and used about 10 watt on idle. Put OpenBSD on it and it now draws 20 watt - I assume because OBSD is much less aggressive about idling. That’s about £3 per month extra on electricity if run 24/7.
- NavinF 4y agoEhh normally you’d want a home server to have a handful of SATA ports and enough PCIe lanes for a SAS card and GPU. If you’re spending 5W per HDD and hopefully in the future hundreds of watts for video transcoding, 20W for everything else is no big deal. Anyway I’ve never used OpenBSD, but you can probably mess with the CPU governor settings to make it idle more aggressively.