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Re:Making a Linux home server sleep on idle and wake on dema... by ornornor on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @01:11PM (#35630683)
That sounds like a lot. I have a HP Z440 with a Xeon e5-2650v4 (24 cores) with 128GB RAM, 2x8TB spinning rust, 1x PCIe SSD, and another SATA SSD that’s idling at 70W. When it’s rubbing the drives, it goes to around 100W. Running proxmox.

The machine without most of the drives and 32GB RAM cost me about 250$ used.

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Re:Making a Linux home server sleep on idle and wake on dema... by oceanplexian on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @01:23PM (#35630804)
It's his CPU (X3460). They are quite ancient and were known for being power hungry (Nehalem). Even a move up to a $15 Broadwell chip would improve energy efficiency dramatically. The motherboard probably doesn't even support sleep states like S2/S3.
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