That sounds totally normal.
The airflow over the CPUs is not the same. My right CPU (as seen from the front) is always 2-4C hotter than the left. Under load, and if I have 16 spinning rust in the front, the right CPU may well be 4-5-6C hotter.
I wouldn’t worry about it.
Is there a RAID controller in your machine?
I have a esp32 gizmo connected to my meter. It has a built in web server displaying live data, and also pushing MQTT data to Home Assistant.
I’d return it if it was sold as a server rack.
That didn’t answer my question. 🙂
My R720 with 12 SAS drives idled at around 225W.
I’ve cut down the number of spinning rust to 6, and added 4 SSDs, now it idles around 120W.
I also enabled power capping in the BIOS at 250W. 2x Xeon v2, forgot which model, and 128GiB RAM.
That’s mostly semantics, for me at least.
I have only one NAS, and one Proxmox host that is up 24/7, so they are in production.
I regularly tinker with those two as well, it’s all part of my lab.
Did you select the correct boot drive(s) in the HBA BIOS?
I like Mac Minis in general, but for a first homelab machine I’d choose something with 2+ NICs, without using USB dongles.
Maybe you’re just supposed to describe your VM setup?
Like host and guest OS, hypervisor, networking, service(s) running etc.
Why is that shocking?
It’s the same in Norway, and other country specific TLDs. You’ll need to have a VAT number to purchase a .NO, but I don’t think you have to be a Norwegian national.
Some data are backed up to a local NAS, some of that data is backed up to cloud (not Google or the big ones).
Most of my data aren’t important. Photo library is both local, in the cloud, and most on offsite DVDs.
~45K lossless music files is local and cloud. Those would suck losing, but I could rip them again.
I’ve been considering tape backup again, it’s like 20 years since I used it at home.