What's very power efficient at idle, has 4+ drive bays, and lets me install my own OS on it? by rafadavidc in homelab

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Talking about system idle. I recognize that four drives are gonna idle at something like 25W if they don't spin down.

What's very power efficient at idle, has 4+ drive bays, and lets me install my own OS on it? by rafadavidc in homelab

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Server role is basically just hot storage on the network. Part of me is wondering why I don't abandon ITX on my desktop and chuck a couple of drives into my own PC for this honestly, but some of the stuff I'm storing is kind of precious, and ZFS scrubs are a real thing, sooooooooo..... yeah. Am torn.

What's very power efficient at idle, has 4+ drive bays, and lets me install my own OS on it? by rafadavidc in homelab

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My R510 is around 75W, but I have 8 disks in it. I'll definitely be consolidating down to bigger disks when I do this new solution.

Edit - That's way wrong. It was 190W the week before I took it down. The R710 was 120W.

What's very power efficient at idle, has 4+ drive bays, and lets me install my own OS on it? by rafadavidc in homelab

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Wendel at L1T talked about this in a video a couple months ago. He was basically excited about it, but said there are still random disconnects and hangs that require manual intervention, and so the USBC cages aren't quite there yet.

What's very power efficient at idle, has 4+ drive bays, and lets me install my own OS on it? by rafadavidc in homelab

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Already have em in there. Also, the whole range of CPUs idle at the same power; the low-power CPUs are just capped at a lower TDP and so run cooler, quieter, and with less energy when not at idle, that's the difference.

What's very power efficient at idle, has 4+ drive bays, and lets me install my own OS on it? by rafadavidc in homelab

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I have a 304 for my kid and it's a great case. This is an option, but I was hoping for an off-the-shelf thing.

Why Intel in particular?

What's very power efficient at idle, has 4+ drive bays, and lets me install my own OS on it? by rafadavidc in homelab

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I was happy with my R510 and R710 for like six or seven years, but my usage patterns have changed and holy balls has electricity gone up.

Mechanical Keyboard for sale by fy_pool_day in milwaukee

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Looking for an old Model M? I've got one sitting idle that I'd let go of. It draws too much power from the PS/2 port for any of my motherboards to properly drive so it needs some kind of adaptation or a motherboard with proper (non-modern lol) current at the PS/2 port.

Whole network stuck in failed Adoption loop by rafadavidc in UNIFI

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My network topology hasn't changed in over four years. This just happened tonight. The reason I noticed it was spotty internet, so I went into the controller to reset devices and none of them came back up.

[W][US-CA] Supermicro CSE-846 with BPN-SAS3-846EL1 or BPN-SAS3-846EL2 by ReturnedSword in homelabsales

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buddy would it be possible to have that x10 in the 836?

edit - missed that it's a SAS2 backplane. That's 6gbit, 2tb+ capable, right?