Yep, was surprised to see that 2x2680v4 is lower power consumption than the previous 2x2630v3 that I had, despite nearly doubled the cores.

I have two 2680v4 with 160GB of RAM, 1 SSD, and 12 HDDs (4 SAS, 8 SATA), and a Quaddro P5000. Average consumption over the last week is 220W (about 25 docker containers that run plex-related stuff 24/7, and a handful of self hosted things). Min consumption (roughly idle, I assume) is 164W. Power is cheap where I live, <12¢ per kWh.

You could cut power consumption down by removing a CPU or consolidating your storage to fewer drives (or going with SSDs if thats in the budget).

No, this one.

Serverpartdeals has an 18TB for $165 right now. That’s would I would get. In fact, I’ve bought 6 of them in the last couple months.

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They have 18TB Exos for $165 USD right now.

I have four 2TB drives in a software RAID0 in my gaming rig. They were manufactured in 2011.