Recent content by glencore

Thanks very much for the advice all!

Sorry, I should say that that wattage goal was excluding the spinning storage, and also at idle. My storage will be 4x 4tb SAS drives (WD4001FYYG), because, well I have those already. They idle at 11 watts each which is high but they will be spun down most of the time.

That's a really good link, thanks! I'm looking at the test setup and it includes a high-end GPU, which I'm googling uses ~17W at idle so I could minus that from these results?

@DrMrLordX I'd like the system to be, say 20-30 watts at idle/very low usage. That would cost me about £3.50 per month to run. I currently have a dell r410 1u rack which seems to draw quite a lot of power even when idle and costs me £15-20 per month to run. @Bouowmx Do you have any...

Hello, Does anyone have any suggestions on very low wattage CPUs for a home server running TrueNAS and a few VMs and containers? I'm looking at current and older hardware, desktop and server. Edit: When I say very low wattage - I really mean very low wattage in low usage states. I really...

Hello, I recently bought a Dell r410 server, works great, I have a few VMs on it, TrueNas with 4 sas drives etc.... until I noticed my electric bill! Turns out the thing is using 150W at idle. As I am barely using 5% of the CPU 99% of the time I've decided to sell it and build a home server...

Hi im also doinf more or less the same as OSX, MOBO: MSI K8N Dianmond CPU: A64 3200+ S939 GFX: XFX 6600GT RAM: Dual 512 Corsair PC3200 (400MHz) My PSU is a 400Mhz 20 Pin COLORSit 400W (Model 400u) ATX 12V Version 1.3 P4 Will this be okay, also if it is, there seems to be only one way...