So as a home server, I’m currently running an old refurbished ThinkCentre E73 SFF (upgraded its RAM to 8GB). And while it’s mostly fine for my use-case, it has 2 slight drawbacks.
- Its size; it’s actually quite big for SFF ( 13.2 x 4 x 15 inches )
- Power Efficiency, while not insane, I’d like to possibly save some money (long-term) on electricity. As I’m currently paying €0.42 per kWh.
With the relatively high electricity costs here, and space concerns, I’m looking for something new to use as a home server.
My budget is €180.00. My requirements aren’t anything too crazy.
I run the following things:
- HomeAssistant
- Flaresolver
- Uptime Kuma
- Linkwarden
- Bunch of random personal scripts (irrelevant as they use < 1% CPU and < 20MB Mem)
I’d like for it to be more power efficient 💚 and would love if it was a bit smaller.
Bonus points if I can easily upgrade storage & memory.
I have a tiny m700? I5-6500t. It uses 5 watts at idle, 15w running all services, and about 35w running benchmarks. It is only 4c4t, but has a decent single core and multi core for what it is.
I actually ran this in my car for a while after realizing that USBC laptop power supplies were a thing when I bought an extra generic charger with power adapters and was able to run the computer off of a cell phone charger.