Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discovery
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The PC was drawing ~90W. All solid state, no spinning rust. Lots of fans though, since it's air-cooled. Not entirely sure what was causing the draw, but it's definitely something I want to investigate at some point.
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No idea, honestly, it's just the default settings. I haven't really had any time to tinker and optimize it to my liking for a while.
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Very cool! However, my house is a rental, so any monitoring equipment has to be somewhat non-invasive.
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No idea. I would imagine it does, but that's something I'll need to check.
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I'm in a rental too. It's non-invasive; just gotta pop the panel cover off, clip the transformers over the wires without disconnecting them, and put the cover back. It can all be removed just as easily.
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I use Kasm for remote access, I believe that has a WOL component as well. I haven't set it up as such, but I plan to later on.
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Definitely gonna check that out.
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Laptops are pretty good at that I run a few 7th and 8th gen 35W mini PCs in my server cluster (i7-7700T/i7-8700T), so hopefully that helps.
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Most ISP routers have sane default settings and block all incoming traffic, you don't even reach their log in interface. If they are somewhat updated you'll be fine in most cases.
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You can also test if multiple monitors is having an effect.
Using sleep mode is a good idea anyways, regardless of idle draw.
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I see your 4-bay docking station and raise my 20-bay storage server. I even stopped counting how much the hardware costs for it
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wtf is that
But I agree, random hardware in your LAN is more of a security threat than anything coming from outside in many cases.
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Without space between the contents, though, they freeze in phases and it affects how they come out. Watch our or just keep air gaps.
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Evaporative clay-pot coolers are also top-load for efficiency.
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Yeah. I got a pro managing it.
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Uh oh. Red flag.
gotta pop the panel cover off,
This may be where the rental agreement is broken. Define 'pop' . Two hands and a tool? Clear it with the landlord first. The company running the 400-unit building where I am now is gonna say F No.
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Lat I checked, it was 40w idle for me on the kill-o-watt. Spinny rust and all!
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It's attached via USB to a 2014-era Mac Mini. Honestly not a huge fan of it.
The kicker is that I'm upgrading it to a 7th-gen based server soon. My dad gave me an old Pentium 4-powered HP Proliant DL110, the case of which has 10x 3.5" drive bays, and is fully ATX compatible, so I'm gonna drop in a 7th gen mobo with Pentium G4560T (already have that on my desk), a newer PSU, and an HBA card. Don't need a ton of processing power for a dedicated NAS running OMV - just a lot of expansion capacity.
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The monitors are part of a 12W draw left after shutting off the PC. The plug is measuring everything plugged into the power strip that powers all of my desktop equipment. The PC itself was drawing ~90W at idle.
