stuner

@stuner@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your self hosted power draw?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I think for me spin-down was working initially. But then I added some Docker containers and those could only be run on the HDDs, blocking spin down. With Debian I just put the containers on the smaller SSD, allowing the HDDs to spin down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your self hosted power draw?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I like being able to drop in whatever disk I need to for expansion or replacement.

  I didn’t move that far away (to Debian + ZFS), so that limitation still remains. Although the addition of Raid-Z expansion should alleviate things quite a bit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your self hosted power draw?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  My NAS/home server takes about 180 kWH/year, or 20W on average (costs me about 5 Euro/month). This feels like a lot to me and makes up a good chunk of my total energy usage.

  What I did to optimize it is mostly select a “low-power” x86 platform, and limit the number of disks. I also decided not to use TrueNAS because it couldn’t let the disks from going to sleep.

  The machine hosts 10 TB of usable storage (+RAID 1), syncthing, immich, file server, Influx DB, Grafana, and a few other services.