| ▲ | starky 3 hours ago | |
I think the worry about power consumption is a bit overblown in the article. My NAS has an i5-12600 + Quadro P4000 and uses maybe 50% more power than the one in this article under normal conditions. That works out to maybe $4/month more cost. Given the relatively small delta, I'd encourage picking hardware based on what services you want to run. | ||
| ▲ | silversmith 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
Less power, less heat. Less heat, less cooling required. At some point that allows you to go fanless, and that's very beneficial if you have to share a room with the device. | ||
| ▲ | dontlaugh 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
It depends how much electricity costs where you live. I’m quite pleased mine idles at ~15W. | ||
| ▲ | queenkjuul an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | |
I'm with you, but my "NAS" is also really just a server, running tons of other services, so that justifies the power consumption (it's my old 2700X gaming rig, sans GPU). But i do have to acknowledge that the US has relatively low power costs, and my state in particular has lower costs than that even, so the equation is necessarily different for other people. | ||