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Cake day: January 2nd, 2025

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  • Just use the OptiPlex for everything. The RPi lacks the horsepower, and storage capability.

    I’m currently using a 7 year old OptiPlex SFF as a NAS, backup point, media converter, and media server. I’ve upgraded the storage drive to 8TB.

    I do have another old NAS I use only to duplicate my data store locally (I keep 3 local copies of data, and a cloud backup).

    The OptiPlex draws 15w at idle, about 85w when converting video. My NAS draws about 5w at idle. I initially tried serving media from the NAS, but it’s performance is frankly abysmal. Instead I run Media Monkey, Jellyfin, and another media server on the Dell, which has no problem streaming to my crappy Samsung TV (not using an app, just the crappy built-in DLNA client) It works even better with decent devices, like my phone, laptop, iPad.

    Your biggest concern with that Dell is the power consumption. As I said, mine happens to draw 15w at idle - I got lucky

    What are the specs on your OptiPlex? Is it a mini tower or SFF? That would help more than just telling us the model.

    Depending on your sensitivity to failures (drives die) I’d get 2 data drives for the Dell and mirror them, using the current drive just for the OS.







  • To me, the cost of stuff like syrup works as a great example of how much we shouldn’t be eating it.

    It costs so much because it’s very time consuming, labor intensive, and it’s reduced from the source liquid about 80%.

    I go through about 16oz of syrup in 1 to 2 years. It’s a sugar (a very simple carb), that’s plenty for the average person.

    Even worse is what it’s typically used for - high carbohydrate foods, like pancakes, waffles, and desserts. Again, stuff we really shouldn’t be eating all that much of.

    It’s sort of naturally limiting by the effort involved in getting it. So I don’t mind paying for the real thing.