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I was trying to sort a decent UPS, then got distracted by solar and bought a house battery.

Once that addition was complete I wanted to get power usage down.

macOS is a pretty terrible OS for a homelab, but the mini is amazing. It’s averaging about 5.5w and has an awful lot of power available.

UTM makes it more bearable and running services in Ubuntu works fine.

[tehlike]

Yeah - I don't have macs, but i use older Lenovo tinys. They run at around 10watts, and plenty of compute for what i need.

I also have a monster epyc 7200p, a 1G poe switch, a 56G mellanox optics switch, another server with HBA connected to a DS4246.

Everything I absolutely positively need.