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Re:The charm of buying old workstation hardware on the cheap by dev_dull on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @11:30AM (#20105411)
It really depends. My home server uses about 120w idle (older series i7 with many disks). It comes out to about $25 a month in electricity.

That’s enough to where you should make sure it’s worth it, and ask yourself if you’re better off with a higher end NUC or even raspberry pi, which use orders of magnitude less power.

(We have solar so I don’t really worry about the power consumption anymore)

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Re:The charm of buying old workstation hardware on the cheap by chronogram on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @11:46AM (#20105599)
Wow what a difference! My laptop shows about 2-3 watt idle (brightness low of course). What a huge difference in power consumption over the years. Do you think that’s mostly the hard disks using the power?
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Re:The charm of buying old workstation hardware on the cheap by Max_aaa on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @01:26PM (#20106834)
My home server is basically my old laptop. It is a Dell Latitude e6540, just sips power when not under heavy load.

with a 4 core i7 and 16 GB of ram, it is more than enough for home use.

for storage, it has a m.2 SATA ssd for the root partition. And 2x 2tb hard drives that are raided with zfs for the home and network share folders.

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