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I dunno when it happened but I swear SBCs were the new best thing in the universe for a while and everyone was building cool little servers with their RockPis and OrangePis.

Now it's all gone x86 and Proxmox with everyone shitting on Arm. What happened? What gives?

Is my small army of xPis pointless? What about my 2 Edge routers?

I've got about 6 xPis scattered round my flat - is there anything worth doing with them or should I just bin them?

All thoughts, feelings and information welcome. Thank you.

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[–] phanto@lemmy.ca 27 points 10 months ago (18 children)

I have an x86 proxmox setup. I stuck a kill-o-watt on it. Keep your pi setup if it does what you want, and realize that there's someone out there who is jealous of your power bill.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 6 points 10 months ago (16 children)

How bad is it?

My current file server, an old gaming rig, consumes 100w at idle.

I'm considering a TrueNAS box running either 2.5" ssd's or NVME sticks (My storage target is under 8TB, and that's including 3 years projected growth).

[–] krash@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Holy crap! I have a n100 SFF that consumes 5-6 w idle (with WiFi on) and I have an old i5 (gen 6 I think) that consumes 30 at idle. Your rig is defiantly not meant to act as a server (unless you want to mine bitcoons or run boinc...)

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Lol, yea, it's old, was built for performance, and hasn't run right in a while.

I'm looking to setup a NAS and turn that thing off

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