heysupratim, 3 months ago

@dedsyn4ps3 Which mini pc were you using before this?

dedsyn4ps3, 3 months ago

@heysupratim I've been using one of the BeeLink Ryzen 5 ones. Threw a nice wifi 6 pcie card in it and bumped up the RAM to 64GB.

Runs like a boss and will continue to serve as a DC but needed to add some more firepower for my self hosted applications and other VMs 😎💯

heysupratim, 3 months ago

@dedsyn4ps3 Whats the usual power draw on the beelink for casual average home server apps +container use case

dedsyn4ps3, 3 months ago

@heysupratim ya know, I've never actually gotten around to physically measuring the wattage under standard loads, but I did keep an eye on utility bill increases once I'd installed it and noticed the following:

Hardware running 24/7:

• Beelink Ryzen 5 ~2.95GHz
• WD External MyBook 6TB
• 4x Pi4 Cluster Rackmount
• 24 port POE switch
• 2.5GHz Eero Wifi6 Mesh Router

Mini PC running Windows Server 2022 Active Directory with File Server, two VMs (TrueNAS & Rocky Linux)

Pi cluster docker swarm

dedsyn4ps3, 3 months ago

@heysupratim all that goodness only added a bump of ~$9 in utility cost