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So SBCs are shit now? Anything I can do with my collection of Pis and old routers? (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by cashews_best_nut@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I dunno when it happened but I swear SBCs were the new best thing in the universe for a while and everyone was building cool little servers with their RockPis and OrangePis.

Now it's all gone x86 and Proxmox with everyone shitting on Arm. What happened? What gives?

Is my small army of xPis pointless? What about my 2 Edge routers?

I've got about 6 xPis scattered round my flat - is there anything worth doing with them or should I just bin them?

All thoughts, feelings and information welcome. Thank you.

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[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How bad is it? My current file server, an old gaming rig, consumes 100w at idle.

That's very bad haha. Most home servers for personal use are using 7-10w.

Although you'll have to do the math with your local energy prices to determine how important that is. It's probably not.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It's $1/day. I've done the math a few times

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah so you'd make your money back pretty quickly picking up a dedicated PC for that.

[–] saiarcot895@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

$1/day? At 100W average power usage, that's 2.4kWh per day, suggesting that where you live, the price is 41.67 cents per kWh, ~~roughly double that of California.~~

Is electricity that expensive where you live?

Edit: it's been a while since I lived in the Bay area, I hadn't realized that the electricity price now ranges from 38-62 cents per kWh, depending on rate plan and time.