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So SBCs are shit now? Anything I can do with my collection of Pis and old routers? (self.selfhosted)

submitted 11 months ago by cashews_best_nut to c/selfhosted

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I dunno when it happened but I swear SBCs were the new best thing in the universe for a while and everyone was building cool little servers with their RockPis and OrangePis.

Now it's all gone x86 and Proxmox with everyone shitting on Arm. What happened? What gives?

Is my small army of xPis pointless? What about my 2 Edge routers?

I've got about 6 xPis scattered round my flat - is there anything worth doing with them or should I just bin them?

All thoughts, feelings and information welcome. Thank you.

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[–] nezbyte 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Depends on what your server is running. Multiple GPUs, HDDs, and other fun items start to add up to well over 100W. I justify it by using it to keep my 3d printer filament dry.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

If you have multiple GPUs in your home server you’re probably doing it wrong. But even then, at idle, with no displays connected, the draw will be surprisingly low.

Most systems with some ssd/NVMe, 2-4 DIMMs and maybe a drive or two should idle closer to 50w-60w.

[–] nezbyte 2 points 11 months ago

Agreed, don’t do what I do if you value your power bill. To be fair, my network switch pulls more power than my cobbled together server anyhow.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

If you’re getting two gaming PCs out of one hypervisor, you might be doing it right.