Looking for low power devices for selfhosting (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by pathief@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Hi friends. I'm a newbie in self-hosting, though I've been managing (virtual) linux servers at work for a couple of years. I'm completely ignorant on the hardware choices out there, hopefully you can point me to the right direction.

Here are my requisites:

Low power consumption, I plan to have it connected 24/7 and I'm kinda concerned on how much it will impact the electricity bill
Ethernet port, preferably gigabit but whatever
Graphical performance is not important as I don't plan to connect it to any display. As long as I can ssh into it, I'm good.

Services I plan on installing, for starters:

casaOS
pi-hole, or equivalent
Home Assistant
Kitchen Owl (nice to have)
Paperless-ngx (nice to have)

I live in europe and my budget is around 80 euros or so. Thanks in advance!

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[-] aku@anakmanis.com 4 points 7 months ago

@pathief I think what you are looking for is intel n100 since it only uses like 6-watt TDP, but before jumping to that, you should look at Heaven video. If you only want to run for a year or two, maybe the older CPU is much better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PisIPpbMkTc

I hope you found what you are looking for.

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[-] krash@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This. I did extensive research and will get myself a n100 or n200 for my on-prem server. Itcaps out at 16 GB ram, but I'll survive. N305 has 3x the power consumption as n200 at around 15W. Asrock even has a mITX mobo for the n100. And its fanless!

RPI5 would be the other obvious choice, but it's impossible to get a hold of.

Edit: Also, check out this thread: https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/2340730

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