If you were to suddenly come into possession of 12+ enterprise-grade SAS hard drives, how would you go about incorporating them into your homelab?
Pretend your only other hardware is a repurposed HP Prodesk and your budget is bottom-barrel
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Sell. I don't run a data center and I'm not a cloud provider. I have a meager home server with some stuff plugged in and serve some tv shows. I want this to be as low foot print as possible. If it goes over 10w idle, I'm shutting it down lol.
If I remember correctly, every watt is around $1 a year. So a 100 watt server costs $100 a year every year to run. 12 SAS drives and the server is going to be expensive to keep running.
1W would be 8.769kWh per year. Pricing is regional.
It can also vary by time and day. I got that setup since I use more at night, but in general power companies average that throughout the day.
What's your hardware? 10w sounds great to me. I just started a new build and have to play around to see if I can get better C-states while idle.
11th gen NUC. Much faster than a RPI4, more power if needed (for things like Zigbee USB adapters, external drives..) while still maintaining low power draw on idle. It will jump to 20-30W when transcoding but I dont mind higher power draws when im actually using the thing.
Damn 10watts? My server has a 5800x in it(my old cpu) and I have never seen the system pull less than 130watts
Yeah a lot of people will say to just use your old PC thats lying around and it is a great way to start and learn but if you want something with a lower footprint (low power, quiet, cool) you're better off buying something more suited to that task. Laptops or mini PCs are much more suited to that.
Id love to have a server rack one day but I just cant justify it drawing so much power when I can live with the drawbacks of a smaller server.