Quote from: LoyceV on Today at 02:35:47 PM

Quote from: philipma1957 on Today at 02:23:55 PM

The 8 inch by 8 inch by 1.5 inch tinys use under 30 watts daily if they have an intel i5 6500t cpu.

that is 1 kwatt a month. who cares about power costs at that level

30W is 21 kWh/month, or 263 kWh/year. That's €100 per year (at €0.38/kWh). Assuming I create a setup for 5 years, that's €500. If a Raspi could bring it down to 6W including disk, that saves €400.

Quote from: DaveF on Today at 02:28:23 PM

Also, with laptops if you do have to change the fan out it is *usually* more of a project then a desktop.

I'm on my third fan Tongue

The first one broke, the second fan had less blades than the original and didn't work as well. Most of the time it's just 8-12 screws.

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On the flip side if the AC adapter dies on a laptop it's not a big deal vs. taking apart a PC to and getting a new power supply.

Don't get me started on adapters....... I've seen original adapters blow up the mainboard (twice). Most of the time the cable breaks internally, but that doesn't happen if you use it as a server.

my bad 30 x 30 x 24 is 21600 watts a month or 21.6 kwatts

I pay 14 cents in house so it is 3 bucks a month

I pay under five cents in the mine so it is 63 cents a month.

so if a rasp pi knocks 36 dollars a year down to 6 dollars the savings is 30 usd a year.

and if its 8 a year at the mine I drop to 1.50 and save 6.50 a year.

I don’t really mind that extra money to run a node

If you pay 50 cents a kwatt its 10 bucks a month or 120 a year vs 100 a year which does add up