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> This Linux PC I am writing this post on is coming up on 12 years old and is more than adequate for my purposes it is very very likely wasting a ton of watts
by jcelerier 4y ago
> This Linux PC I am writing this post on is coming up on 12 years old and is more than adequate for my purposes
it is very very likely wasting a ton of watts doing what a secondhand stick PC such as https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B08G1CCWN5 https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B08G1CCWN5 can do in less than 10 watts, so no, it is very much not adequate from a global point of view
- LinuxBender 4y agoI get what you are saying but I enable a lot of power management controls specifically so that I can run on the inverter for a long time during power outages. This was a medium-to-low-end PC when it came out so it was already decent on power usage. When the day comes that I replace the HDD with a SSD I'm sure that number will drop even more.
- jcelerier 4y agoeven in low power mode, just your spinning HDD already consumes more than the whole stick computer, the very best 7200rpm can manage 8 watts from what I can find on the internet and the average is more like 20-25 watts
- LinuxBender 4y agoeven in low power mode, just your spinning HDD already consumes more than the whole stick computer That's why I spin down the drive and all cron jobs run to a ram disk. The actual power-pig on my computer is the video card. I could and probably should find a used video card that is less powerful as I barely use a tiny fraction of this GPU's capabilities. Either way I am happy with where I landed in this setup. When this rig gives out I may switch to a mini-pc or use one of my spare protectli firewalls as my daily driver.