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What’s the power situation on old devices like these? Is it not really a big deal because you’re not running heavy workloads or would say a NUC pay for itself i

by davemp 3y ago

What’s the power situation on old devices like these? Is it not really a big deal because you’re not running heavy workloads or would say a NUC pay for itself in comparison?

kbar13 3y ago
NUC is hundreds of dollars. assuming this device runs like 5W on average, that'd be like $1 / year at $0.025/kWh in energy costs.
- brewdad 3y ago
  Not that it changes your fundamental point, but isn’t the typical energy cost 5x that rate?
- piceas 3y ago
  Or 17.5€ at 0.4€/kWh for me.
antifa 3y ago
Here are my research notes: NUC7i7BNH - 10.31 Watt Idle/49.31 Watt load - $0.86/month idle to $4.32/month load Intel Iris Plus Graphics 650 MacMini M1 - 6.8W idle/39W max (apple specs) - 4.2W idle/31W load (anandtech compute MT workload) Beats a low-end VPS in everything except existing in good network infrastructure. Android smartphone wasn't on my comparison list at the time, as I'm not familiar with installing and running debian on one.