I need to keep power usage in mind and don’t want to spend more than 500€ on hardware. Power is roughly 0.35ct/kwh in Germany

I like the small square machines (former NUC). But I don’t have any overview which ones are worth the price.

For data storage I am thinking about a NAS, but it would need at least two HDDs for redundancy, otherwise it’s not better than an external HDD that I have. Also it does have its own power draw, which isn’t insignificant (10w->~300€/10years).

Capabilities of the machine don’t matter too much, I will see what I can do with the hardware I get.

Is there a sweet spot, a device that everyone buys or cheapest brand or best package or whatever?

  • acockworkorange@mander.xyzEnglish
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    12 days ago

    You’re worried about power draw, know that each server grade 4500 to 5400 rpm HDD draws around 7watts. You can reduce that impact by having a flash drive for your system files (NAS config, logs, apps…) and setting up spin down times so that your HDDs only spin when in use.