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A diverse group of individuals who consume 12 MWh of power per capita, while it's around 6 or 7 MWh for modern European countries. It's not even a stereotype, just statistics. (got my data in two minutes from Wikipedia, so maybe not up-to-date)
I wonder how much of the difference is air conditioning?
I used to have an overkill home network, complete with self hosting everything and 10G backbone. These days i'm more pragmatic. I have exactly 2 wired machines, and everything else runs Wifi. The network "rack" is simply a firewall and a 16 port POE switch, everything else network related has been retired to the closet. My NAS is gone. With electricity frequently going above €1/kWh last winter, it seemed like a bad i…
I recommend you checkout Rclone ( https://github.com/rclone/rclone ) instead of Cryptomater, much more robust and powerful software. I used to use Cryptomator as well, but after my data exceeded certain size, it became slow and difficult to operate. Plus, once I went to pull my data out of it, I realised that it had reset file metadata on all my files (I didn't know what picture was taken when anymore, for example)
Personally i have never experienced any of the issues you mention, but my Cryptomator vaults are also mostly below 1TB in size.
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> 5-10 years ago I would think this is perfectly fine. I believe I was not alone in this, but maybe I was. The energy would have cost pennies too and why whine about it? When I moved into my own home (8 years ago) I brought my 'homeserver' with me. Which was just a simple i5-2600 build with some shucked drives in it. I never thought about electricity prices when I lived with my parents. But that changed rather fast.…
Hold on a second - how large of a household are we talking? House or apartment? What consumes all that power? Electric vehicle? Work from home? I'm environmentally conscious (0 cars, 0 pets) but I haven't spent any time measuring and optimising electricity usage. I've had a look at my own electricity usage every once in a while, now averaging 48 kWh/month (between 38 and 68) for a larger than average apartment for tw…
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I also have mixed feelings. I stopped home labing because of the energy costs. I now have everything I need (HomeAssistant / NAS / Router) running on an old Dell Precision laptop. Laptops make great servers because they are optimised for low power consumption + you get a free console and UPS built-in! I'm tempted by the new Alder Lake N100 mini PCs that are available on Chinese websites. But I need to wait until the…
Laptops are great servers? Hmm I beg to differ. They are very compressed, so they heat up a lot. You need low power server? Go for Atom like CPU with good case. My home server running D2550 and 2x 1TB HDD is less than 40W. PSU is cold.
You do have a point in that certain devices can suffer from overcharging and bulging batteries. This issue is largely addressed in newer devices. I can see that the BMS in my laptop server is holding at 90% charge. Definitely worth checking if you plan to use an old phone/laptop/tablet as a 24/7 device.
I love this so much! For anyone asking why, the simple answer is: because they can! Hats off to you, Sir. I wonder if this person works in IT? I’m a dev lead, I do silly amounts of hours and when I actually have a decent amount of free free time up my sleeve, the last thing I want to do is tinker with my homelab.
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> I do a lot of similar stuff in my home network with a lot less equipment. This is also my case. For Internet access, I use a router which has 4 2.5 GbE ports for the internal LAN, which was made several years ago with an Intel NUC and 4 USB Ethernet dongles, but which could be done today with a small and cheap fanless router using an "Alder Lake N" Intel N100 or N200 CPU. There are also such small routers with more…
Huh the ring topology is a really cool idea. With the right routing rules it could open up some ports on my trunk switch, though I'd need to upgrade my NICs. Great idea for whenever I decide to retire the SBC though!
When a part of the servers are powered off, the topology of the subnetwork becomes linear and the throughput becomes limited to 10 Gb/s, but with less active servers the traffic is also less.
Greater performance can be obtained by using two Ethernet cards with dual 10 Gb/s ports in each computer. With 4 ports per computer total interconnection can be achieved up to 5 nodes and above that each node can be connected to two intersecting rings, which is a topology very frequently used in HPC.
An alternative is to use a single card with dual 25 Gb/s ports, per computer. Such cards are not much more expensive than the 10 Gb/s NICs, but the 25 Gb/s switches are very expensive, so a ring topology without switches is even more attractive.
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When powered adequately, the Ubiquiti Flex (USW-Flex) [1] might fit your needs. [1] https://eu.store.ui.com/eu/en/collections/unifi-switching-ut...
Looks great but I woud prefer to avoid Ubiquiti because I don't want to involve a 3-rd party cloud to manage it. But I really appreciate your suggestion, perhaps I am going stick to it as I've seen no alternative so far and my previous experience with Ubiquiti makes me confident it will do the actual job great.
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I find your comment to be at the absolute peak of sanctimony. Who are you to decide if it is necessary or not? Furthermore, why are you justified in negatively stereotyping Americans – a diverse group of individuals?
That particular comment was "the absolute peak of sanctimony"? Like, the most sanctimonious comment you have ever read on the internet?
I've seen stuff that or more vile etc. of course, but as far as sanctimoniousness goes, this is the worst I've seen in my several decades on the internet.