April 7, 20215 yr Hello I started wondering because i have my main server at home, and will be dropping of my server at the parents house and build a new for the new home. But then i started wondering because i want low power, if it would be possible to use something like a LattePanda Delta for that? Or should i just buy a Pi with OMV, build a low power i5 10400f build or something similar? I will only be using it for storage server, 4-5 dockers or similar.
April 22, 20215 yr Hi, My current build uses an Asrock j5040 mobo, with 3 x 8tb WD whites and a 500gb WD red SA500 cache drive. I run 10 dockers, no VM’s, running max 3 concurrent Plex streams. No 4K, only 1080p with any external transcoding at 720p 4mbps. Draws about 15 watts from the wall when idle. I sometimes think I miss the power of my old build, 4c/8t Xeon with a P400, but the reality is I don’t and the electricity bill is minuscule in comparison. Edited April 22, 20215 yr by Ankara74
April 23, 20215 yr 22 hours ago, Ankara74 said: Hi, My current build uses an Asrock j5040 mobo, with 3 x 8tb WD whites and a 500gb WD red SA500 cache drive. I run 10 dockers, no VM’s, running max 3 concurrent Plex streams. No 4K, only 1080p with any external transcoding at 720p 4mbps. Draws about 15 watts from the wall when idle. I sometimes think I miss the power of my old build, 4c/8t Xeon with a P400, but the reality is I don’t and the electricity bill is minuscule in comparison. Could you tell me what else you have? I currently have a massive case with 9 drives, but I've already bought 3 8TB drives. I was originally going to use the 3 8TB drives to replace the 9 drives, but this system is old. Really old. So, I think I might get an all new system. And one that's lower power would be a benefit. I really don't do much with my system. It's really a storage location, though movies and TV are stored there, and two streams can be going at the same time.
April 24, 20215 yr Hardware wise: case: an old Lian-Li PC-A05FN (although it’ll be moving to an Antec P101 I have due to the WD whites causing the aluminium case to hum when they’re spun up) fans: 2 old Akasa Apache 120mm pwm psu: mid range 400w Be-Quiet ram: 1 stick 16gb Dockers: Plex Sonarr Radarr Sabnzdb Pi hole Glances Home Assistant MQTT Unifi-controller Speedtest-tracker I plan on plugging this into a TP link Kasa smart plug this weekend, so can update on the average daily and weekly power draw at a later date; initial idle draw was taken using a non smart monitor. I’ve not messed with the bios yet, so there may be tweaks I could implement to lower the wattage, only fettling so far was to update the bios firmware (I can’t remember why, but I needed this to fix some issue).
April 27, 20215 yr Thanks. I might have to make a post, as I started looking for parts, and it gets a bit overwhelming.
May 3, 20215 yr After a week plugged into the smart power monitor, including a parity check: daily average 0.51kwh weekly consumption 3.54kwh in the UK a kWh is about £0.145, so my sever cost me £0.51 to run for the week.
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