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Re:Building a Budget Homelab NAS Server by termios on Sunday May 29, 2022 @12:26PM (#31550374)
this costs as much as every PC i've ever owned put together!

my budget homelab is 100% recycled (ewaste):

- dual core pc (free)

- hard drives (free)

- ram (free)

- lcd monitor (free)

- mdadm + ext4

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Re:Building a Budget Homelab NAS Server by diffeomorphism on Sunday May 29, 2022 @12:49PM (#31550562)
What is the power consumption?

At the beginning of the year 0.35€/kWh was a good estimate. An extra 10W for one year then costs about 30€.

I get the "recycled" motivation, but at that point you might be wasting lots of electricity (and as a result also money).

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