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?

  • Evilschnuff@feddit.orgEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Have a look at the intel n100 or n150 chips. I got the asrock n100dc board but that has issues with ram stability so maybe pick something else that’s not cheap aliexpress stuff. In general the chip is very capable and only draws 10w. My whole setup draws 20w with drives rpi router and fiber modem, also German prices :) also use ssds instead of hdds as they draw less and need nothing on „spinup“ as well.