I self host on a 5 year old Dell Optiplex Small Form Factor desktop.

I also have a Raspberry Pi, which has about 1/16 the performance of the desktop - Pi can be used for all sorts of stuff.

Exactly

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Yep.

My Pi is about 8 watts. Really hard to beat.

The SFF started at 12w, but swapping out the data drive for a much larger one pushed it up 5w. And now with 2 VMs always running (PiHole and a Windows VM), it hovers at 20w.

The ancient NAS (Drobo) sits at about 15w.

The LOVE of money.

The number one thing you can do, by orders of magnitude, is to start with power-friendly hardware.

For example, my previous server was an old gaming machine. It’s lowest idle power consumption was 80 watts. That was with running an OS that permitted heavy power reduction control, and enabling every power saving feature in the BIOS.

Compare that to my 2019 Dell Optiplex Small-Form-Factor desktop I’m running as a server. The power supply is rated for 80 watts, MAX. It idles at 20w, peaks at about 70w when converting multiple videos simultaneously. This with an 8 TB enterprise drive for data.

So 1/4 the power draw when idle, where it spends perhaps 90%+ of its time. Even things like Resilio Sync and Syncthing don’t significantly raise CPU time.

Streaming with Jellyfin or Mediamonkey have nearly no CPU impact.

There’s nothing in heavier hardware you could tune to get down to 20w.

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I like how the first shot (the thumbnail) has a sort of laughing Dr. Evil thing going on. Haha

That’s a GM car - both the color of the panel and design of the cranks are GM.

Where do you get high energy consumption for cooling? Fans are about the lowest energy consumer in a PC, often tenths of a watt.

Just checked a 20 year old PC fan I have lying around, and it’s barely over 1 watt… And it’s 20 years old. That’s within the error margin of the monitor I use to track power consumption.

Also, big data use some of that immersion cooling, but largely not, as the servers are the same rack-mount as anyone else buys, just many more of them. Source: I occasionally walk through data centers when planning new infrastructure - they have the same servers my friends use in the SMB space.

Machinery like computers, cars, building chillers, etc, cycle the fluid into a radiator where the fluid is cooled.

This is also how an air conditioner works.

It’s still conduction.

Yep.

Even if you aren’t religious (I’m not), I highly recommend reading the bible, and history since say the 1500’s.

Things were objectively MUCH worse prior to the 20th century.

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That’s not data redundancy - there’s still only one copy of your data.

Those are mitigations against loss of data due to loss of parity.

There’s still only ONE copy of your data.

Fine.

Pull 1 drive and see how redundant your data is while it’s resilvering.

RAID is NOT data redundancy. You still have a single copy of your data.

Tell me again how RAID is data redundancy?

https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1987/CSD-87-391.html

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Once had a doc describe it as a form of GERD, so the same approach applies.

RAID isn’t data redundancy, it’s an array of drives combined to form a single logical storage pool. It solves the problem of needing a single storage pool larger than the available drives. As such, it’s very sensitive to loss of a single drive.

At your storage size requirements (2 TB), RAID is unnecessary today.

Edit: Let me say it again for you downvoters-RAID is NOT data redundancy.

There is only ONE copy of your data in RAID (excepting mirroring). It’s why RAID now has double parity and hot spare drive capability.

RAID is for creating a single pool that’s larger than available drive size.

Go ahead and downvote in ignorance, and learn about data redundancy when your RAID fails.

RAID is NOT data redundancy - it’s DRIVE redundancy.

Take it from the source https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1987/CSD-87-391.html