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When building a home server, could a used/cheap PC do the job? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 year ago by SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I've never done any sort of home networking or self-hosting of any kind but thanks to Jellyfin and Mastodon I've become interested in the idea. As I understand it, physical servers ("bare metal" correct?) are PCs intended for data storing and hosting services instead of being used as a daily driver like my desktop. From my (admittedly) limited research, dedicated servers are a bit expensive. However, it seems that you can convert an old PC and even laptop into a server (examples here and here). But should I use that or are there dedicated servers at "affordable" price points. Since is this is first experience with self-hosting, which would be a better route to take?

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[–] prenatal_confusion@feddit.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wondering if you have and insight on power usage with the a310 in the system while idling. I built a sub 25w server and don't want to mess that up.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry, but I don’t know. I use an A380 in my system. I got it before the A310 was available.

[–] prenatal_confusion@feddit.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How does the a380 impact your power consumption? If you have ever measured it.

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’d imagine not very much. I don’t know how to measure just the GPU. It doesn’t have any desktop installed, so it’s only ever rendering a console. It can transcode tons of 1080p streams at once, so even a transcode probably doesn’t draw much power. The CPU is the hungriest part, and that’s mostly idling too.