Comment by jtriangle
3 years ago
That whole section is BS in general. The server linked isn't going to use 1KW of power ever, not on the worst of days. The only real point that they're making is that "it's loud" which is true, very true, but, it's designed to run in a rack away from humans..
While their solution is more livable for them, the hardware is vastly inferior for actually hosting serious services on, and they don't seem to understand that because they're software guys who're getting away with it.
Given the electricity rates he mentioned, what would you estimate the monthly running cost to be?
Depends on load. Somewhere around $20-40? Assuming idle around 80-120w, and another 100w for the e-waste drives in their pictured listing.
His numbers are probably 8x higher than actual. So maybe $8-15/mo for electricity for one of the old servers, not $100.
It will eat much more than 80W though