| ▲ | NordSteve 3 days ago |
| Bad for your power bill though. |
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| ▲ | platybubsy 3 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| I'm sure 5 rpis will devastate the power grid |
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| ▲ | duxup 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I need to heat my house too so maybe it helps a little there. |
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| ▲ | 11101010001100 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| You still pay for power for the cloud. |
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| ▲ | trenchpilgrim 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Still less than renting the same amount of compute. Somewhere between several months and a couple years you pull ahead on costs. Unless you only run your lab a few hours a day. |
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| ▲ | Damogran6 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I got past that back when I was paying for ISDN and had 5 Surplus Desktop PCs...write it off as 'Professional development' |
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| ▲ | throwaway894345 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| What does a few rpis cost on a monthly basis? |
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| ▲ | theodric 3 days ago | parent [-] | | Depends. At full load? At Irish power prices? Just the Pi, no peripherals, no NVMe? 5 units? €13/mo. Handy: https://700c.dk/?powercalc My Pi CM4 NAS with a PCIe switch, SATA and USB3 controllers, 6 SATA SSDs, 2 VMs, 2 LXC containers, and a Nextcloud snap pretty much sits at 17 watts most of the time, hitting 20 when a lot is being asked of it, and 26-27W at absolute max with all I/O and CPU cores pegged. €3.85/mo if I pay ESB, but I like to think that it runs fully off the solar and batteries :) | | |
| ▲ | throwaway894345 3 days ago | parent [-] | | > Depends. At full load? At Irish power prices? Just the Pi, no peripherals, no NVMe? 5 units? €13/mo. Pretty sure most of us aren't running anywhere close to full load 24/7, but whoa, Irish power is expensive. In the central US I pay $0.14/KWh. | | |
| ▲ | theodric 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Yeah, it's brutal. Was €0.39 right after Mad Vlad kicked off his vanity conflict. | | |
| ▲ | throwaway894345 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | That’s rough. What’s your progress on renewables? Wind has made electricity really cheap in my state and I would think Ireland would be pretty windy (esp offshore)? |
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| ▲ | fragmede 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | cries in west coast peak $0.71/KWh rate |
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