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Optimizing Power Consumption

I mentioned in an earlier post that one of my concerns with my current setup is the power consumption of everything in my rack. After writing, I realized that I know what the load is on my UPS, but I don’t know how each component draws on its own or what everything actually costs to run. I also haven’t looked into tuning things for power consumption for so..

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My Current Software Stack

As part of planning some hardware upgrades, I think it is important to evaluate the software side of things to make sure everything is accounted for in the new design. This is also a good opportunity to evaluate and prune what I have running before deciding where to move things around. Virtual MachinesI run a few VMs on my Unraid server; many are seldom us..

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