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Choosing replacement server. (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have a Poweredge T320 used mainly as NFS file server and Plex. all 8 HDD bays are full. Main storage is 4x4TB WD Red in Raid5.

However electricity prices are surging and its too power hungry to be running 24/7. I bought a replacement Optiplex 5070 with a i5-7600 cpu that I plan to supply with a couple of Exos 20TB drives, abandoning the Raid config.

As I was waiting for it to arrive, a Dell T20 (G3220 cpu) came up for sale close by for $20. I ended up buying that one as well.

Now I have to choose which one to set up as a server. I do not transcode or do any other CPU intensive tasks, so my main concern is low power use. Which one do you guys suggest I pick?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Newer CPUs will generally idle lower and be more power efficient at low loads and will stay at lower load due to higher processing power. I'd go with the i5-7600.

That said I have my NAS on a Haswell era i5 cpu and it still works well at reasonable wattage. So the T20 would still work.