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[–] 10 points 10 months ago (6 children)

My NAS draws about 25w (without drives). Show me an old PC with 6 3.5” drive bays that draws 25w.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    At idle or under normal load? Im tempted to get the killawatt out.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    Idle. Under load a bit more. It’s a mobile chipset, so it is efficient. Not as powerful as a desktop for sure but totally handles my basic workloads.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago*

    Ok. R5 3600, rtx 3070, and 4 spinning drives. Idles at 62W. 80W under normal load (2 concurrent streams). This is a hilariously over specced NAS. This is all 2nd or 3rd life pc parts (outside of the spinning rust), so financially speaking I'm happy with the result.

    The long term goal is to use it as a homelab separate from anything I need to work all the time. I want to try running some LLMs locally and use it to control some home automation stuff. That'll stress it.

    Edit: so yeah its double yours.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I've got a 12VDC Mini PC as my NAS/Jellyfin server with 6 SSD's and no monitor that idles around 30watts and runs entirely off solar. It ain't fast but it does everything I need it to do and costs zero dollars to run.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    Those are good. I got tired of dealing with the unique trouble that comes of having drives attached with a USB JBOD. Also it was just a celeron and kinda melted doen if I ran motion detection with Scrypted.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    The Xeon 2224G workstation with 32GB of ECC ram I got on eBay pulls 15 watts from the wall streaming 4k video on Plex.

    It didn't have 6 bays but if I needed it I could move the guts to a bigger case

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