This is a very good article about server setup mainly for power consumption, but shows quirks like power level draw based on what pcie slots are used, etc. This guy servers. https://mattgadient.com/7-watts-idle-on-intel-12th-13th-gen-the-foundation-for-building-a-low-power-server-nas/

They ahould have uaed the original Mini and the BMW Mini as a comparison

20 is my good spot too, like 24 and I’m dying. We had a heat wave in BC, Canada last couple of yeara and it hit 38-40 most days during the 2 weeks. The amount of sweating and fatique were exhausting. 52 would have killed me.

This happens in the USA without face recognition

Rustdesk or Teamviewer https://www.teamviewer.com/en/download/linux/

Rustdesk ia great and almoat feature to feature with teamviewer. Rustdesk has some non opensource code portions and some have speculated that the contributors could be chinese state actors, etc. But TV is proprietary…so…

As much as I enjoy satire, there are people that will cite this and believe it

SkyDaddy Drivel

Seafile has a free open source edition, and even their paid enterprise license is free under 3 users

Instead of wifi printing, my printer is attached directly to my Pi, then Common Unix Print Server/System (later Rebranded Cupertino Print Server when apple took over the project many years later) acts as printer announcement, driver and spooler service.

https://github.com/jkbenaim/hs100 if you have tplink kasa hardware this cli tool lets you send direct commands via Wifi, no hub required. it is not that the tech actually needs a server, it is that the server handles IP address changes, records data, checks switch on/off status, scheduling, etc, to provide a better experience than hitting an on off command.

What is bad is when the supplying company goes out of business, you are left with junk. Self Hosting is the way.

Also if you buy Kasa TPlink plgus and switches there is a git HS100 repo that has scripts to run to preprogram your switches to use a localhost instead of baked in proprietary IP server, and scripts to associate your switches and plugs to your wifi without an app. https://github.com/jkbenaim/hs100

With this CLI tool you can also manipulate the plugs and switches direct by IP address rather than via homeassistant server.

• trilium notes
• paperlessngx
• cups
• homeassistant
• syncthing

You just need one Pi. get a pi5 for future proofing. Docker addition , so you can host more than just home assiatant

My homeassistant is running on a pi2 with 2GB RAM. it doesn’t need much.

But yes, it is a central place for processing and recording data, either from phone, imstalled electrical hardware or other devices.

I just picked up a Monsterlabo: The First, it is all heatsink for the top 2/3rds so your CPU and GPU are completely fanless, I’m searching for a fanless PSU now. It will be a dead silent PC.

oof, I have to upgrade one of my drives then, since those options are showing in the drive config. But yeah, my newer drive has this option greyed out. Only performance vs power saving is and adjustable slider on the new ones. Interesting thing is google says that article was from September 2023, so it is quite out of date then.

LOL. I mean depends on the baseline number, so yeah, you would be correct. But the concern would be as you mentioned the Purple drives don’t care (as much) about data loss. Fine for video if you lose a pixel, but bad for mission critical data.

The SMR does make sense for surveillance, because it is a constant stream layed down, it is not random write access changing a block in files of various places. This show has talked about their usage. The tolerance on dropping bits to keep going with the stream would worry me in data sensitive applications

https://2.5admins.com/

There are spec sheets, but I have tested myself, brand new Purple Drive out of package and run disk bench marking read/write testing. Writing was steady, read rate was under performing compared to Blacks or Reds.

If you can’t find the drives you want maybe reviewing/testing acoustic Management might be something to help reduce noise.

https://recoverhdd.com/blog/make-your-hdd-faster-or-quieter-with-automatic-acoustic-management-aam.html

Don’t do it, is my suggestion. Surveillance disks are optimized for continuous writing performance and not read performance. They mght be SMR version also which can play havoc in a NAS with lots of writes, as it can’t just rewrite one portion without relaying out the shingled overlayed tracks adjacent.