My Intel file server is now gone. The speed to electricity usage was the most expensive benchmark and was too low. A Pi 5 now provides a similar speed using less electricity. I may have to wait a little longer for some programs to complete but it is mostly stuff running while I am doing something else, making the ongoing power cost a higher priority.
Solar with a battery is one answer to electricity costs but if everything runs with the high power usage of the old machine, I would need more panels and a bigger battery.
The GPU in the old machine was better but the GPU activity is only a small percentage of total activity and the GPU sucks big electricity all the time. It has no low power idle mode.
The system disk was SSD but only mSATA and tiny, 0.128 TB. The Pi 5 has an NVMe SSD running at PCIe 3 and the SSD 1 TB. I now have the space to do a lot more on the main disk. I have some other services in mind.
RAM is half the capacity, only 8 GB, but the services I am thinking of installing used to run in 4 GB.
The storage disks will be all SSD eventually. SSDs have much lower powered idle modes and they return to idle faster, reducing electricity use. I have a power meter to test total power consumption as the system is expanded.
For downsizers, there could be a benchmark for speed and capacity versus shelf space, another benefit of using a Pi.![:D]( "Very Happy")
Solar with a battery is one answer to electricity costs but if everything runs with the high power usage of the old machine, I would need more panels and a bigger battery.
The GPU in the old machine was better but the GPU activity is only a small percentage of total activity and the GPU sucks big electricity all the time. It has no low power idle mode.
The system disk was SSD but only mSATA and tiny, 0.128 TB. The Pi 5 has an NVMe SSD running at PCIe 3 and the SSD 1 TB. I now have the space to do a lot more on the main disk. I have some other services in mind.
RAM is half the capacity, only 8 GB, but the services I am thinking of installing used to run in 4 GB.
The storage disks will be all SSD eventually. SSDs have much lower powered idle modes and they return to idle faster, reducing electricity use. I have a power meter to test total power consumption as the system is expanded.
For downsizers, there could be a benchmark for speed and capacity versus shelf space, another benefit of using a Pi.
Statistics: Posted by peterlite — Wed May 21, 2025 3:03 am