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I'm new to selfhosting and I find myself rarely using the server, only when I need to retrieve a document or something.

I was thinking of implementing something to make it power on, on demand, but I'm not sure if this might be harmful for the HDDs, and I'm not sure how to implment it if so.

What's your recommendation to do so? I'm running a dell optiplex 3050

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hardware specs would be more useful than the model.

As a general rule, install 'tlp', and 'powertop'. TLP will usually make a decent impact with the defaults detected for your specific hardware, but you can go further by tailoring the config for your specific hardware as well. Powertop is normally better for laptop power measurement on battery, but the tunables section will show you good and bad settings that are currently enabled, which you can easily toggle on and off. It's just an easy interface for new users to be able to dig into detailed power tunables without really harming anything.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Want to add s-tui to the list of useful power monitoring tools, as well. It's not really focused on 'changes' so much as just presenting pretty graphs and power monitoring.