100GHz

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I have few machines and am wondering when to start bothering with upgrades. Power is not too expensive here so I would probably switch if I can halve the idle wattage whenever more recent used hardware hits the second hand market.

I am currently looking at 70-90W per server.

NAS server has 4 disks 1 ram stick, proxmox has 8 disks full ram.

Alternatively, do I ride with the current setup until they fall apart?

[–] 100GHz@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

What's DRM free for storage?

[–] 100GHz@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Which 20TB? The last projects or random?

[–] 100GHz@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

It's a 14nm tech that Intel polished and polished, but remained 14nm tech. If power is a concern, look into Optiplexes , Ryzens, the new Intel CPUs, etc.

[–] 100GHz@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wear and tear?

[–] 100GHz@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Some would argue that not having them, is a great strategy for breaking in the system :P

[–] 100GHz@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

Is the primary air intake from the front of the box?

At 50 boxes, even if they heat up for example 20W each, you are still looking at 2kW equivalent hit air that needs to get removed.

That being said, id stack them in a manner where airflow is the primary concern here.

If air is from to back in that box, stack tight like a brick wall, leave no space around, and put enough fans from the back to pull all that heat out.

If the box expects air from the sides too, well I guess you'll end up spacing them and having even more fans to pull the less efficient cooled air out.

You want to measure the temps there as you are building/running this.

It's consumer boxes too, you really want to buy a fire extinguisher too, they are very cheap nowadays.

[–] 100GHz@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

easiest/most reliable OS for a small homeserver

Debian stable, skip docker / snap and similar crap, add unattended upgrades.

[–] 100GHz@alien.top 1 points 10 months ago

It's a bit ambiguous question:

A) If you are hosting the blockchain "at home", then by definition you contribute to the consensus of the network and you are just hosting the blockchain. Self hosting becomes irrelevant as your node becomes part of the never ending non reputation party.

B) If you are are enabling people to host data ON the chain itself: Well, good luck on future technical interviews if you put that on your resume :P