A couple of weeks ago, my homemade NAS hardware failed – How should I upgrade? (alien.top)

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Some of you may remember a poll about NASs I recently opened here on the sub. The background was that my HP ProDesk 600 G1 SFF turned into NAS finally failed. Now, I did some diagnostics and it seems to be a motherboard problem. However, I don't really want to repair it, so I will gut it for usable parts and recycle the rest. The reason behind it is that it was a power-hungry mofo, idleing at 20-25w. Hence, now that I have the chance I'd like to upgrade to something much more energy efficient, idleing at < 10w. I am currently looking into tiny HPs and Dells, since they are cheap to get off Amazon as refurbished machines (< 150€) and seem to idle in that watt range. What do you think? TY in advance.

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[-] DaGhostDS@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Hence, now that I have the chance I'd like to upgrade to something much more energy efficient, idleing at < 10w.

Unless you're going full (sata) SSD, that's impossible as most drives will idle at 4-7w and go up to 15w.

So 20-25w is not that bad, depending on the amount of drives.

[-] IlTossico@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Get something with an 8th gen Intel CPU, if it's only a Nas and a few Dockers without VMs, you can get a G5400. Or an i3 8100 if you want more estate. With the G5400 I was idling 10W on my system, but the i5 8400 I've now idle just one watt more, so.

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