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papis802 ,

I made a TV network on mine using a SSD, VLC, and some recordings, a composite to coax converter, and some DVDs I bought from a thrift store. Works pretty well.

papis802 ,

I made a TV network on mine using a SSD, VLC, and some recordings, a composite to coax converter, and some DVDs I bought from a thrift store. Works pretty well.

ThePac ,

Am I the only person that thinks this meme doesn’t make sense? Hulk’s giving Antman tacos because Antman lost his tacos and would very much appreciate the generous offer.

akariii ,

yeah, its ironic

Johanno ,

This is why I bought myself a server (consumer pc with 40TB) that does all that for only 1000€

RaivoKulli ,

I used an old laptop I had with a broken screen. Werks

gdaofb27584 ,

I used to have my own server for 4 years. It was my personal compute with virtual machine and 10TB. Then I checked my electricity bill, it was so expensive I rebase everything on a single RockPro64 with a raid 1. Hardware budget is not that expensive, but you should definitly calculate how much electricty will weighs on your house budget

nik282000 ,
@nik282000@lemmy.ml avatar

Shit, I just realized my NAS is less powerful than a modern Pi. It’s only a dual core, 1.6GHz Atom with 1.8GB ram.

newIdentity ,

That’s not even nearly as powerful as a pi 4. At least on paper

WanderingCat ,

what architecture is the CPU?

nik282000 ,
@nik282000@lemmy.ml avatar

X86_64 It’s an Acer H340, it originally ran windows home server starting in 2009 but I switched to Debian in 2016. It has run the entire 14 years less about a week of power outages.

Swim ,

Can anyone tell me of I can run a Plex server and a pi hole on the new raspberry 8gig ?

electrorocket ,

Probably? I believe the pihole is pretty low resource. I have mine on a Zero.

Swim ,

Ty

NewbLemmy97 ,

Im running jellyfin and pihole on a 4gb and have not encountered any issues. 8gb should be more than enough

Swim ,

Ok ty for the info.

jetsetdorito ,

yes, but I would recommend transcoding everything for direct play before putting it on the server

newIdentity ,

Or just disable transcoding and play in full quality

Ascend910 ,

Just buy another Raspberry

jubilationtcornpone ,

I’ve got an old PowerEdge tower server sitting in my basement that I picked up for $300 on eBay. Dual 6-core Xeons. It’s running probably 7 Ubuntu VM’s in Hyper-V and not even breaking a sweat. Still need to get the GPU passthrough for Jellyfin configured though.

kbotc ,

Eating $70 in power a month.

jubilationtcornpone , (edited )

It might if it were really working hard but at idle it draws around 160 watts.

Edit: I was close. 140 watts.

boeman ,

My power edge R630 was eating way too much power… It’s off and being replaced with a second consumer grade PC to be my second host.

I don’t really have anything that takes enough clocks to justify that pig of a machine.

Theharpyeagle ,

Wait, we’re supposed to justify getting new servers? You don’t just hoard them like blank notebooks?

boeman ,

Well, I was… But dual 700w power supplies running a whole lot of VMs was a bit too much power draw.

lemming741 ,

My 5700g proxmox host, switches, access points, and modem use 120 watts according to my UPS. That’s $10/month in my $0.12/kWh geographical area.

luckystarr ,

How much power does this thing draw?

JurassicPork ,

I see myself in this picture, and I don’t like it 😂😂😂 that’s why I’m running 2 pi’s 😁 photoprism, pihole, pivpn, unbound, portainer, and multiple HDD setup with cron jobs as a nas, and another pi with heimdal, pihole, pivpn. Unify controller, NUT server… Prob forgetting some lpl, Looking to add a lot more docker containers… So ya… This meme got me in the feels lol

HandwavyHeisenberg ,

I feel you. I don’t know your usecase for photoprism, but do you know immich? https://immich.app

JurassicPork ,

I really appreciate you making me aware of immich!! Think I may host it on my other pi, and give it a try out, have photosprism and immich on separate pi and see which I like better 😊 thanks!!

argv_minus_one ,

Why not use a full-size computer for all that stuff?

nx2 ,

€€€

argv_minus_one ,

I take it you don’t already have a desktop you can use?

BCsven ,

I think they mean the power consumption. Single board pis and such sip power. Desktops are usually drawing too much at idle to leave running like a pi. i mean you can if you have cash to do that

randombullet ,

To save money, they can go the derelict laptop route.

If they get a low tdp board, maybe like an old laptop without a battery, the power difference isn’t going to be too much. Pi can pull 9W at full tilt. And an old Ultrabook with it’s monitor tuned off or unplugged can probably pull 35-45W at full tilt.

So 45W - 9W = 36W

36w x 24hr x 356 = 315,360Wh

315.36kWh x 0.25 cents = 78.84 a year

But that’s assuming everything is running at full speed. For something running 24/7, we can probably estimate idle state is more common. Laptops can idle about 3-4W a pi4 is also idle around 3-4W.

So 90% at 4W and 10% at 45W for the laptop

And 90% at 4W and 10% at 9W for the pi

Gives us 8.1W average for the laptop

And 4.5W for the pi

Giving us a total difference of 31.536kWh. or 7.88 additional a year.

This is also assuming the laptop has the same computational power as the pi, which isn’t true, so the laptop will end up finishing tasks faster than the pi and use more power for a shorter amount of time.

Aetherion ,
@Aetherion@feddit.de avatar

Intel Speedstepping enters the room

BCsven ,

So my old T7400 with 1000w power supply is a bad plan.

RaivoKulli ,

For me electricity is included in the rent. Probably why I have a beer fridge next to my couch.

BCsven ,

fire up the mining rigs

thomasdouwes ,
@thomasdouwes@sopuli.xyz avatar

RPI: Actually dying

Me: Gitlab time

jelloeater85 ,
@jelloeater85@lemmy.world avatar

Sweet baby Jesus. Reminds me of folks running Lemmy on them and wondering why their SD card is always failing 😅

thomasdouwes ,
@thomasdouwes@sopuli.xyz avatar

I was running lemmy on it too until a few days ago. I had an SSD for the database though.
oh and the gitlab instance was the straw that broke the camel’s back for the Pi, I ended up going with forgejo instead.

Phrey ,

How is Forgejo these days?

thomasdouwes ,
@thomasdouwes@sopuli.xyz avatar

I like it better than gitlab, gitlab is too cluttered and has loads of features I don’t need. forgejo will be a lot better when they get federation going though

kbotc ,

Slap a USB NVMe IN there and be done with it.

PuppyOSAndCoffee ,
@PuppyOSAndCoffee@lemmy.ml avatar

lol. Sir, I only have 4 cores and 8GB

YOU DONT KNOW ME SON

NaoPb ,

Me in the future

Franzia ,

Thin clients!

SkepticElliptic ,

I dumped all my pis late last year and bought a $30 thin client with better specs and more io.

weedazz ,

Tiny mini micro!

WtfEvenIsExistence ,

All you need is Lemmy.

Lemmy is Love.

Lemmy is Life.

SpaceNoodle ,

Does nobody else cobble together home servers with spare parts any more?

Rescuer6394 ,

yep i do, amd phenom x6 with 8gb of ram is still rocking!

but not for long, i have too many services for the ram and it swaps too much.

SpaceNoodle ,

Just download some more RAM already

Rescuer6394 ,

My Goodness Why Didn’t I Think of That!

uint32 ,

Spare parts don’t run on 5-10 watts.

SpaceNoodle ,

Spare parts can also do a heck of a lot more.

uint32 ,

Everything is a trade-off ;-)

Gormadt , (edited )
@Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Mine is a server I got for free because the person I got it from didn’t want it anymore as he was going to something more power efficient

Mine’s running dual Xeons with 192GB of RAM

Edit: I really do need to upgrade it to something less power hungry though

SpaceNoodle ,

hawt

PuppyOSAndCoffee ,
@PuppyOSAndCoffee@lemmy.ml avatar

I just imagine the power in three zip codes flickering (I kid I kid)

PeterPoopshit ,

I do this. Random ebay junk is both better and cheaper than a raspberry pi. When I first started doing home server stuff, I had the option between an Athlon XP and a raspberry pi and the Athlon XP delivered better performance (I tried both).

bjorney ,

Random ebay junk is both better and cheaper than a raspberry pi

A PC drawing 150 watts will burn through $225+ in electricity a year. The raspberry pi maxes out at like 6 watts.

RPi is the best performance to operating cost you are going to find if you don’t need more juice for high intensity stuff (transcoding, etc)

c0mbatbag3l ,
@c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world avatar

Just me lol

Mbourgon ,

I’ve done it a ton in the past, I’ll do it again in the future, but having a essentially plug and play tiny little box that sips juice and still does what I need while being silent… is rather nice

SpaceNoodle ,

I also want something with a multi-TB hi-speed drive that can handle a dozen different services.

Mbourgon ,

There are external drives the pi can access via USB, 480mbps. Should be fast enough for most LAN uses.

defluo ,

Well yeah. I do, out of necessity. I can’t justify buying a pi yet. Someday I hope to.

SpaceNoodle ,

I bought a couple Raspis before they even came out, and they’re handy for certain applications, but just can’t really stand up to the task for whole home server needs.

Dave ,
@Dave@lemmy.nz avatar

I have a RPi1B that runs Pihole just fine, and I have a RPi4 that runs a bunch of services fine (plug in a SSD, don’t use a SD card).

But if you’re hoping to do a photo server or run a media centre… nah. Rpis are very power efficient, but for media you really need something that’s gonna suck more power.

captain_aggravated ,
@captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works avatar

The Raspberry Pi: When “a computer, any computer” will do. I have so many of them in service bolted to the backs of televisions or monitors as digital signage.

Double_A ,
@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

If you don’t need the electronic side of the RPi, you might be happier with some old thinclient PC that offices sometimes get rid of for cheap.

Toribor ,
@Toribor@corndog.social avatar

A cheap used office computer with a good CPU and decent RAM can far exceed the power of a Pi. That’s been my strategy. I just Frankenstein it a bit with leftover parts from my gaming computer and load it up with disks.

SpaceNoodle ,

Ditto. My current server has the MoBo + CPU of a friend’s old all-in-one, the case of an old HTPC, RAM from a trashcan, and big fat platters.

deeznutz ,

There’s good deals on lenovo m900s or dell optiplex that are great for this. New enough to have low idle wattage and decent performance for VMs and containers, and old enough that they’re cheap.

UntouchedWagons ,
@UntouchedWagons@lemmy.ca avatar

I cobbled my home server together with twine, a 14u server rack and some used poweredge servers.

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