So as a home server, I’m currently running an old refurbished ThinkCentre E73 SFF (upgraded its RAM to 8GB). And while it’s mostly fine for my use-case, it has 2 slight drawbacks.

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  1. Its size; it’s actually quite big for SFF ( ‎13.2 x 4 x 15 inches )
  2. Power Efficiency, while not insane, I’d like to possibly save some money (long-term) on electricity. As I’m currently paying €0.42 per kWh.

With the relatively high electricity costs here, and space concerns, I’m looking for something new to use as a home server.

My budget is €180.00. My requirements aren’t anything too crazy.

I run the following things:

  1. HomeAssistant
  2. Flaresolver
  3. Uptime Kuma
  4. Linkwarden
  5. Bunch of random personal scripts (irrelevant as they use < 1% CPU and < 20MB Mem)

I’d like for it to be more power efficient 💚 and would love if it was a bit smaller.

Bonus points if I can easily upgrade storage & memory.

  • Any_Analyst3553@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I have a tiny m700? I5-6500t. It uses 5 watts at idle, 15w running all services, and about 35w running benchmarks. It is only 4c4t, but has a decent single core and multi core for what it is.

    I actually ran this in my car for a while after realizing that USBC laptop power supplies were a thing when I bought an extra generic charger with power adapters and was able to run the computer off of a cell phone charger.