I have no explanation. Really shocked me that idle was that low, and I ran the meter on it for a week with it mostly just sitting there, and some file copy action. I could see in the power chart when I copied files, then it would fall back to 12w. Nuts.
I have to make a config change soon (add a drive and a fan), I’ll put the meter back on for a week.
Because no one wanted to?
You haven’t, right? Why? As you said, you don’t have the programming skills (neither do I).
It’s always just that simple - someone with the expertise doesn’t feel like doing it. Nothing more, nothing less.
Sometimes, people like you and me get motivated enough to go learn how to do these things, or find people with the skills.
Oh, wow, thanks for the link. A very interesting read.
Now I’m gonna find a QNX 4 demo and run it in a VM, just for the hell of it.
They’ve had HUD in cars since the 80’s.
Granted it sucked, and typically only showed speed, but it was there.
Oh, wow, didn’t know that’s a wild garlic flower. I’ve seen them before, thought they were something else entirely.
Plus both of these fans are compressor style, so they can really move air through their respective channels.
The video card uses it’s own exhaust channel out the back, as does the cpu cooler.
Impressive.
Though at that point I would’ve cut a large square out of the case and gone for a plexi cover, with holes for the fans.
Though this approach is really impressive.
“disgusted”
Oh, autoincorrect, never change… Haha
Shove your politics where the sun don’t shine.
Device Manager shows i7-7700, 3.6ghz, 8 cores
Maxes at 3gb 32gb of ram, unfortunately, since I run some vm’s on it.
Good to know! Wow, I’m impressed by the low power draw.
Thanks, I wanted to add a video card for conversion jobs, but didn’t think it had enough power.
I went to the library and checked out every Shaun dvd they had and ripped them.
There’s a bunch of Shaun on YouTube too.
Yay, more Shaun!
Sounds like she virtualized and got her brother to host.😋
I have an older (2017) Dell SFF OptiPlex 7050 that idles about 12w, with 3 drives (each 1 TB, spinning disk).
It peaks about 80w when I’m doing conversions, but I can keep that down by limiting cpu usage for handbrake (it doesn’t convert faster above 4 cores anyway, just uses more power).
I was surprised by the low idle power, I would’ve been happy with upwards of 40w since my previous machine idled at 100w.
So I think very low idle is possible, I’m just not sure why this box idles so low.
Disks add wattage when running, but when idle use very little power, less than SSD.
Suprisingly hard drives often use less power than SSD because they can spin down, and because they use less power during writes than SSD.
Also Wireguard, which is what Tailscale uses.
Resilio Sync or Syncthing
Ah, just saw the browser requirement.
In nextcloud discussions I’ve heard of Seafile. I’ve never used it, so not sure what it’s capable of.
I’m impressed the part was available, anywhere (and then for a reasonable price!). That can be a real challenge with appliances
You can download them too, with apps like Grayjay. I do this with my phone, then just copy the files to my server (actually have a sync job that handles it).