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Pretend your only other hardware is a repurposed HP Prodesk and your budget is bottom-barrel

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Sell. I don't run a data center and I'm not a cloud provider. I have a meager home server with some stuff plugged in and serve some tv shows. I want this to be as low foot print as possible. If it goes over 10w idle, I'm shutting it down lol.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Damn 10watts? My server has a 5800x in it(my old cpu) and I have never seen the system pull less than 130watts

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yeah a lot of people will say to just use your old PC thats lying around and it is a great way to start and learn but if you want something with a lower footprint (low power, quiet, cool) you're better off buying something more suited to that task. Laptops or mini PCs are much more suited to that.

Id love to have a server rack one day but I just cant justify it drawing so much power when I can live with the drawbacks of a smaller server.

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