By the late 20-teens, stuff got a lot more power friendly. I have a 2017 Dell desktop that idles at 18w with an 8TB drive inside. Marginally more than my NAS.
Though I’m not disagreeing, you definitely need to check that first. It’s why I retired my really old desktop that was my prior server - it idled at 100w+. Ouch.
…until you look at the power consumption.
Power prices are also up a ton. It’s like up over 20% year over year in my area to help subsidize all the new AI data centers.
Ffs
I compensate the power usage by using my nas to also run all kinds of services.
Depends on how old.
By the late 20-teens, stuff got a lot more power friendly. I have a 2017 Dell desktop that idles at 18w with an 8TB drive inside. Marginally more than my NAS.
Though I’m not disagreeing, you definitely need to check that first. It’s why I retired my really old desktop that was my prior server - it idled at 100w+. Ouch.
This is a good point.
I’m idling at around 30w with my old system. Old xeon CPU, rtx 2060, 17tb.