And I don't even use most of them

Does nobody else cobble together home servers with spare parts any more?

Spare parts don’t run on 5-10 watts.

Spare parts can also do a heck of a lot more.

Everything is a trade-off ;-)

I’ve done it a ton in the past, I’ll do it again in the future, but having a essentially plug and play tiny little box that sips juice and still does what I need while being silent… is rather nice

I also want something with a multi-TB hi-speed drive that can handle a dozen different services.

There are external drives the pi can access via USB, 480mbps. Should be fast enough for most LAN uses.

I do this. Random ebay junk is both better and cheaper than a raspberry pi. When I first started doing home server stuff, I had the option between an Athlon XP and a raspberry pi and the Athlon XP delivered better performance (I tried both).

Random ebay junk is both better and cheaper than a raspberry pi

A PC drawing 150 watts will burn through $225+ in electricity a year. The raspberry pi maxes out at like 6 watts.

RPi is the best performance to operating cost you are going to find if you don’t need more juice for high intensity stuff (transcoding, etc)

Mine is a server I got for free because the person I got it from didn’t want it anymore as he was going to something more power efficient

Mine’s running dual Xeons with 192GB of RAM

Edit: I really do need to upgrade it to something less power hungry though

I just imagine the power in three zip codes flickering (I kid I kid)

I cobbled my home server together with twine, a 14u server rack and some used poweredge servers.

yep i do, amd phenom x6 with 8gb of ram is still rocking!

but not for long, i have too many services for the ram and it swaps too much.

Just download some more RAM already

My Goodness Why Didn’t I Think of That!

A cheap used office computer with a good CPU and decent RAM can far exceed the power of a Pi. That’s been my strategy. I just Frankenstein it a bit with leftover parts from my gaming computer and load it up with disks.

There’s good deals on lenovo m900s or dell optiplex that are great for this. New enough to have low idle wattage and decent performance for VMs and containers, and old enough that they’re cheap.

Ditto. My current server has the MoBo + CPU of a friend’s old all-in-one, the case of an old HTPC, RAM from a trashcan, and big fat platters.

Well yeah. I do, out of necessity. I can’t justify buying a pi yet. Someday I hope to.

If you don’t need the electronic side of the RPi, you might be happier with some old thinclient PC that offices sometimes get rid of for cheap.

I bought a couple Raspis before they even came out, and they’re handy for certain applications, but just can’t really stand up to the task for whole home server needs.

I have a RPi1B that runs Pihole just fine, and I have a RPi4 that runs a bunch of services fine (plug in a SSD, don’t use a SD card).

But if you’re hoping to do a photo server or run a media centre… nah. Rpis are very power efficient, but for media you really need something that’s gonna suck more power.

I made a TV network on mine using a SSD, VLC, and some recordings, a composite to coax converter, and some DVDs I bought from a thrift store. Works pretty well.

Am I the only person that thinks this meme doesn’t make sense? Hulk’s giving Antman tacos because Antman lost his tacos and would very much appreciate the generous offer.

I setup a k8s rpi cluster for this reason, and now I just have 4 overloaded pis 🙃

Could you not just actually build a dedicated PC for that price? Lol

I do also have a dedicated PC as a NAS, the rpi cluster was more for learning. And k8s does provide some cool flexibility

But then he won’t have a k8s rpi cluster

This is the real reason

I mean you could have a smaller cluster

and the power consumption adds up, too.

This is true. Really annoyed that arm as a hole isn’t being utilized like it could be by really anyone but apple. We could be making arm Linux powerhouses that sip power like a mid tier x86 laptop. The worry by some is that there is now way to do this without having every component solderd on, but dell has already made a new open laptop ram slot standard that has almost the same latency as Apple’s soldered ram.

Arm is the future, and needs to be treated as such more than it is.

Pis are only 5W, right? 4 of them should still add up to about as much as a midweight laptop.

Sounds like k3s would be right up your alley, it’s API compatible with k8s but has a lot less overhead than k8s, designed for use on low power devices like the Pi.

I found that for my use case (jellyfin, gitea, portainer, nextcloud, adguard, …) the pis are still nearly idle but the bottleneck for me was ram. Anyone with similar experience?

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