Absolutely this. The power and heat from older servers is a significant factor. I'm running a r720XD and it pulls about 300w under normal load with a typical home server setup of VMs with home assistant, Plex, truenas, etc.
I would love to upgrade to something like a v4 cpu, but I'm leaning towards micro PCs in a cluster because of the size and power constraints.
Absolutely this. The power and heat from older servers is a significant factor. I'm running a r720XD and it pulls about 300w under normal load with a typical home server setup of VMs with home assistant, Plex, truenas, etc.
I would love to upgrade to something like a v4 cpu, but I'm leaning towards micro PCs in a cluster because of the size and power constraints.