Kinda curious what people’s power draw is. Mine sits at about 50-60W at idle.
I’m kinda new to self hosting but I have immich and jellyfin severs. And then a little LLM role-playing game I made running locally on an older gaming laptop. It spikes up to like 170W for like 30 secords when playing when the “Dungeon Master” responds.
Idk just like to hear what other people got going on! I’ll probably still tinker to get my power draw down even more if possible
How’s that working for you? I don’t need 8 of them but after doing some passive research, the Optiplex seems to be a favorite in the homelab/selfhosting arena.
I personally have a better experience with the lenovo tiny, but I have a mix of tiny/mini/micro, and all of then make for a great low wattage server solution IMO.
They’re super common in corporate deployments, some larger companies will just give old (3-5 ish years) boxes away to employees when they do upgrades. I don’t have any running right now but I’ve gotten a few over the years that way. IMO their main virtue is that they’re easy to come by for cheap, but I don’t think I would seek one out specifically.
Not op, but they are great little machines if you don’t need a GPU. I have 2 as proxmox nodes and I want one more so I can have my more critical services running on it instead of my main docker machine.
Their Intel graphics work great for transcoding, but yeah, not much else. I’ve got Emby one one of them, and the QuickSync hardware acceleration works well even with multiple simultaneous streams.
Works pretty great as long as you keep your expectations realistic. Easy to upgrade and pretty reliable. Only annoying thing with any of those micro PCs is the cable management is a pain because of the power bricks. I got some USB-C PD adapters and Dell-style cables and that’s made a huge improvement.