Ehh 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

Ehh 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.