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Low usage power saving recommendations request? (self.selfhosted)

submitted 5 months ago by Mir to c/[email protected]

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I'm new to selfhosting and I find myself rarely using the server, only when I need to retrieve a document or something.

I was thinking of implementing something to make it power on, on demand, but I'm not sure if this might be harmful for the HDDs, and I'm not sure how to implment it if so.

What's your recommendation to do so? I'm running a dell optiplex 3050

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I have a similar question that I wonder if anyone can help with. So I'm not overly familiar with self hosting but I'd like to get into it more with simple things, I have a raspberry pi connected to a 3d printer for networked controls and I feel like I should be able to make the raspberry pi not be used just for that only. So like I'm thinking maybe I can run simple things along with it. Basically since the printer is noisy I don't want all that to be on all the time but I'd like the raspberry pi to do oter things too. Maybe I should make a separate post for this haha, anyways thanks for listening. Oh forgot to add my question lol So basically I'm wondering if there's a way that power on lan or something may be useful here

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

A RasberryPi uses so little power when idleing that turning it on and off on demand makes not a whole lot of a difference. It is different though with OP's x86 with spinning rust drives.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

They're wanting the Pi to do more than one thing. I'm assuming they're running Klipper but also want to run a file server or PiHole, for example, on the same Pi.