![]() That translates to ~$40 a year in electricity costs kWh). I recon newer CPUs are a lot better, so my guess is the actual power consumption of a new desktop when doing light tasks like serving files over a network will probably consume 15~20W more than a Celeron. New CPUs and PSUs are extremely power efficient, the fastest desktop PC I have is an old i7-6700K/16GB/RTX2600 with a 500W PSU, when idling or doing very light tasks like web browsing it only draws less than 40W from the wall (I have measured this with a power meter). Just because a PC has a 550W PSU doesn't mean its drawing 550Ws from the wall all the time. Yes, you don't need such a powerful machine for a NAS and light computing, but having said that you are not wasting much (if at all any) money getting a desktop either. My post was mostly a reply to the previous comments about this being a “powerhouse” and having “pretty good server performance”, which this clearly isn’t.įor just storing important files and maybe running a couple of small applications you don't need a super powerful machine with a 550watt power suply, you're just wasting money. This is ok as a basic NAS for someone who wants an off the shelf plug and play product This is ok as a basic NAS for someone who wants an off the shelf plug and play product, but for anyone who wants something more I suggest building your own or buying a pre-built desktop and creating your own NAS with TrueNAS, Unraid, Linux or even True, which is why I said This is a very poor choice for a home server at this price point, because you can build a PC with something like a Ryzen 5600G that has 10x the CPU power with 4x the amount of RAM (16GB) for ~$100 cheaper ! With such a small memory and a weak CPU you can’t realistically run VMs, multiple docker containers etc. ![]() While this can run a plex server for serving videos it can’t even transcode 4K content ( I admit this is not a requirement for many, but since you brought up Plex I'm just saying this can't be used as a fully fledged Plex server). No its not, a Celeron J4125 with 4GB (upgradeable to 8GB) can’t be considered “pretty good” for even basic home server use cases. ![]() If you are interested in it for its server performance, it is still pretty good.
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