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?
Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2650L v4
The density and cost and power consumption has been climbing with rackmount gear, honestly I kinda see it hitting the point where the gear you can get your hands on gets too expensive or too power hungry.
I think one of the upcoming ryzen APU’s in a jonsbo n3 would be a killer low power setup, memory costs will be painful to get a decent amount into an itx board, you could add 1l PC nodes once you have the NAS already though.
I did a BIOS power tune recently, and that shaved off 14 watts on idle.
So that’s a thing you can also do.
