I'm running HS on a Win10, i7 2600 box with 16gb of ram and 128gb SSD at the moment.
It's pulling about 100w at idle. Based on my electricity rate, I spent approximately $200 a year in electricity to keep this box running 24/7. So power wise it makes sense.
The PC is in the media closet connected to the TV in my living room which used to serve as an HTPC but I now have a fire tv for that purpose.
Main concern is reliability and availability time when power is out. With my 100w pC the ups can only keep it up and running for maybe 10 minutes before shutting down. Using a 1/10 of the power of these little 10w pc, I can do with 30min uptime which is very nice.
But what's the reliability of these things? I build my own PC so I always pick decent component, having everything in such one lightweight box scares me.
Going from an i7 to an Atom PC or similar with only 4gb or 8gb of ram will work with HS with no side affects?
It's pulling about 100w at idle. Based on my electricity rate, I spent approximately $200 a year in electricity to keep this box running 24/7. So power wise it makes sense.
The PC is in the media closet connected to the TV in my living room which used to serve as an HTPC but I now have a fire tv for that purpose.
Main concern is reliability and availability time when power is out. With my 100w pC the ups can only keep it up and running for maybe 10 minutes before shutting down. Using a 1/10 of the power of these little 10w pc, I can do with 30min uptime which is very nice.
But what's the reliability of these things? I build my own PC so I always pick decent component, having everything in such one lightweight box scares me.
Going from an i7 to an Atom PC or similar with only 4gb or 8gb of ram will work with HS with no side affects?
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