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When did efficiency started to matter with home servers? It feels like chasing the high perfmance/w ratio is a recent thing that is becoming more popular, or ma

• citrin_ru 3y ago
  Electricity prices are rising in Europe for at least the last 10-15 years (which accelerated since 2022). The higher rates the more people care about power consumption.
• theshrike79 3y ago
  Like the sibling comment said, electricity prices are going up. We're getting peaks of 40c/kWh here. In addition summers are getting hotter and extra energy usage in hardware is translated directly to extra heat. I need to run my AC more in the summer because my tiny server rack is producing so much heat. During winters it's kinda handy though =)
• TiredOfLife 3y ago
  When electricity price went up 3 orders of magnitude.
• sandreas 3y ago
  It is not only about efficiency, but also about these so called MiniPCs (N100, Raspberry, Rockchip, etc.) being sold for > 100 bucks these days and with a little effort you can build a REAL server with ECC and NVMe based on older used hardware for only a little more money with ECC RAM, similar efficiency, way more power, cool remote features like AMT / ILO and better OS / Software support due to x64 architecture. I think the whole "Raspberry as a home server" discussion is pretty much overrated since the prices went up, because nowadays it always seems to be a compromise in terms of price / performance.