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…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
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.
I compensate the power usage by using my nas to also run all kinds of services.
I’m idling at around 30w with my old system. Old xeon CPU, rtx 2060, 17tb.
This is a good point.
Why not just use your current PC as a nas
I’ve done this for years, my old PC becomes my media server.
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This is a good point.
As a tip for the selfhosters who like to reuse older hardware, look for pcs with cpus made by via. The late models had a very low power consumption for the time and were already x86_64. You can do some nice stuff with them.
