Guess what? I think math isn't YOUR strong point.
Moved into my own place with my super massive power hog system. Its running at 112 watts. My eletric bill is 145 dollars.
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Really? I could be saving $600 per year if I didnt build this...
Why would I lie? Yes I know the fucking rate of the electric bill I've been paying for 2 years.
Yes I know how much power my machine draws. Like I SAID, I LEAVE MY PC ON 24/7 SINCE IT HOSTS A DNS SERVER. MY ELECTRIC BILL ISNT 180 DOLLARS BECAUSE OF IT. A GAMING MACHINE DRAWS MORE POWER THAN A...
I dont know where you live but for me its 9.5 cents per kwh. Even if its at 100% usage 24 7, thats 269.81 per year...
I cant save 400 a year if its only costing me 270 a year... And thats at max usage, which is extremely unrealistic.. The realistic usage would be probably 35% of the max usage...
I do leave my PC on 24/7 because its hosting my DNS server. The build may be expensive and overkill, but it isnt going to cost me any more per month than I pay now by having a pfsense machine, a gaming pc, and a plex server running on three different machines. Its not a production server its not...
It peaks at 320 watts. Im not going to be at 100% cpu usage 24/7. You said it yourself pfsense and a dns server have a negligible impact. Four cameras on low sensitivity motion detection aren't going to keep it at 100% either. The highest it will go is like 40%. Thats less than my gaming PC...
Building a 16 core / 32 thread server. 500GB samsung 850 evo for boot drive + VM virtual disk storage. Buying four 5MP cameras. Using blue iris to record motion detection.
Building a system for blue iris.
My options for storage are buy 3 WD purple 1tb drives for $150, or I can put 3 SSDs I already own in raid 1 to have 700GB. I'm leaning towards the free option because the build is costing me $1200 and thats not even including the 4 cameras I have to buy and the...
im building a home server.
Two Xeon E5 2650s / 16 cores 32 threads.
32GB ddr3 ECC RAM.
6TB HDD RAID 1.
500GB SSD for boot drive.
Onboard graphics.
Up until this point I figured my build was pretty solid. But then it occurred to me that I'm going to be recording HD motion detection.
Does that...