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I discovered that if the server gets hard shutdown by killing the power it will automatically start back up when the power turns on.
As a result I just set up home assistant with a power toggle and when I want the server off or on I can start it up by restoring the power.
Way more brute force than this guy's solution, but hey, it works.
Another option, if your needs are relatively modest, is to choose a low power mini PC. The one I chose idles at around 5W under Linux before any tweaking. It is based on the Intel N5105. I have a few 2.5” external HDDs attached for backup which are configured to sleep after a short time.
Does such a system exist?
This looks like one of those home server infrastructure setup rabbit holes I would've bailed out of within the first 10 minutes of Googling to research the problem. I commend the author for their perseverance and the writeup - rabbit hole writeups are their own form of entertainment. That alone was worth it. I could never run anything that looks like such a conceptual pain the butt. A pain to maintain and troubleshoo…
In the end I just plugged an external hard disk into the mac.
I have had similar issues in the past even with such simple things as SSH to a Mac. It would be easy to blame the pi or Linux, but as far as I can tell, Apple just does not play nicely with anything not Apple. It's just that little bit different. I have no such problems interfacing Linux and the pi with anything else.
Another option, if your needs are relatively modest, is to choose a low power mini PC. The one I chose idles at around 5W under Linux before any tweaking. It is based on the Intel N5105. I have a few 2.5” external HDDs attached for backup which are configured to sleep after a short time.
Lots of great options that sip power at idle (most of the time)
Desktop grade cpus can be found that max at 35W.
The power per watt of sa
This looks like one of those home server infrastructure setup rabbit holes I would've bailed out of within the first 10 minutes of Googling to research the problem. I commend the author for their perseverance and the writeup - rabbit hole writeups are their own form of entertainment. That alone was worth it. I could never run anything that looks like such a conceptual pain the butt. A pain to maintain and troubleshoo…
However that requires the disk used for backup storage to also be always on.
This looks like one of those home server infrastructure setup rabbit holes I would've bailed out of within the first 10 minutes of Googling to research the problem. I commend the author for their perseverance and the writeup - rabbit hole writeups are their own form of entertainment. That alone was worth it. I could never run anything that looks like such a conceptual pain the butt. A pain to maintain and troubleshoo…
So, fun story. I've got an "AI" server which has three P40s and a M40 in it. I'm doing my own version of "off while idle". I discovered that if the server gets hard shutdown by killing the power it will automatically start back up when the power turns on. As a result I just set up home assistant with a power toggle and when I want the server off or on I can start it up by restoring the power. Way more brute force tha…
That's usually a configuration option in the BIOS setup screen, what to do on power loss: "Last state" or "Off", and your server probably has it configured as "Last state".
Another option, if your needs are relatively modest, is to choose a low power mini PC. The one I chose idles at around 5W under Linux before any tweaking. It is based on the Intel N5105. I have a few 2.5” external HDDs attached for backup which are configured to sleep after a short time.
I'm curious if you have measured power at the well (e.g. smart plug with energy metering or Kill-a-watt.) I just set up a test server with a J1900 (10W TDP.) With 8GB RAM and running from an SSD it uses 25W. Add 4 7200RPM HDDs and it's up to 65W idling. I have another test server based on a Raspberry Pi 4B. The Pi boots from SD card and uses about 5W. Add 2 drives in a USB drive bay and power for the setup is now up…
I like the idea of making compute, storage into appliances if possible locally.
It’s best to use ssds in the machines.
If you want spinning drives put them in a dedicated nas for storage.
This looks like one of those home server infrastructure setup rabbit holes I would've bailed out of within the first 10 minutes of Googling to research the problem. I commend the author for their perseverance and the writeup - rabbit hole writeups are their own form of entertainment. That alone was worth it. I could never run anything that looks like such a conceptual pain the butt. A pain to maintain and troubleshoo…