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NordSteve | 5 months ago

Bad for your power bill though.

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platybubsy|5 months ago

I'm sure 5 rpis will devastate the power grid

duxup|5 months ago

I need to heat my house too so maybe it helps a little there.

11101010001100|5 months ago

You still pay for power for the cloud.

trenchpilgrim|5 months ago

Still less than renting the same amount of compute. Somewhere between several months and a couple years you pull ahead on costs. Unless you only run your lab a few hours a day.

Damogran6|5 months ago

I got past that back when I was paying for ISDN and had 5 Surplus Desktop PCs...write it off as 'Professional development'

throwaway894345|5 months ago

What does a few rpis cost on a monthly basis?

theodric|5 months ago

Depends. At full load? At Irish power prices? Just the Pi, no peripherals, no NVMe? 5 units? €13/mo.

Handy: https://700c.dk/?powercalc

My Pi CM4 NAS with a PCIe switch, SATA and USB3 controllers, 6 SATA SSDs, 2 VMs, 2 LXC containers, and a Nextcloud snap pretty much sits at 17 watts most of the time, hitting 20 when a lot is being asked of it, and 26-27W at absolute max with all I/O and CPU cores pegged. €3.85/mo if I pay ESB, but I like to think that it runs fully off the solar and batteries :)