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I was trying to sort a decent UPS, then got distracted by solar and bought a house battery. Once that addition was complete I wanted to get power usage down.

I was trying to sort a decent UPS, then got distracted by solar and bought a house battery. Once that addition was complete I wanted to get power usage down. macOS is a pretty terrible OS for a homelab, but the mini is amazing. It’s averaging about 5.5w and has an awful lot of power available. UTM makes it more bearable and running services in Ubuntu works fine.

tehlike 10mo ago
Yeah - I don't have macs, but i use older Lenovo tinys. They run at around 10watts, and plenty of compute for what i need. I also have a monster epyc 7200p, a 1G poe switch, a 56G mellanox optics switch, another server with HBA connected to a DS4246. Everything I absolutely positively need.