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I have a N6005 box from AliExpress ($180 bare, about $300 with 32Gb RAM and a nice 512Gb M.2 nvme) that runs a bunch of workloads (Proxmox VE on the metal, opnS
by gigel82 4y ago
I have a N6005 box from AliExpress ($180 bare, about $300 with 32Gb RAM and a nice 512Gb M.2 nvme) that runs a bunch of workloads (Proxmox VE on the metal, opnSense in a VM doing all my routing, plus 4 LXCs with 20+ Dockers for various services).
Just looked over the energy report and it's averaging 0.18kWh daily (so the average power draw is 7.5W) - that's with a 3.5in SATA HDD. Better power use than my Raspberry Pi 4 with an external USB HDD!
If low power consumption is your main motivator, I'd say you can do a lot better with one of those instead.