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Will this be overkill or otherwise not recommended for someone who is new and just starting to learn?

My goal is to have something I can grow into, but initially I'd like to host a few VMs, game servers, and a have place to store content. I'd also like to host a PLEX server in the future as well but might buy a separate piece of hardware for it specifically down the road. Thanks in advance for taking the time to help a newbie!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can quiet the fans using IPMI.. and mine pulls about 150w loaded with 10T drives and a GPU for Plex transcoding

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What CPU is in it? And I guess my spinning drives don’t shut down all the way I have around 100W idle with an AMD 6750GE and a HBA for 6G and 12G SAS each.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Dual E5-2670s. (8 core, 2.6ghz). I also have a broadcom dual port 10gb LOM and an emulex dual port 8gb Fibrechannel card in it with their respective optics

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

WTH everyone has lower power usage with ancient equipment 🤣

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just checked and I stand corrected. 325w but I have a BUNCH of VMs going on it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, not fair to compare with my idle numbers. It’s not running because of solar Power shenanigans