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dell-wyse-fujitsu-futro #36

Open utterances-bot opened 1 year ago

utterances-bot commented 1 year ago

Thin Clients as Home Servers: Dell Wyse 5060 and Fujitsu Futro S920: an Experience Report

If you are looking for a cheap and power saving home server then a used thin client like a Dell Wyse or a Fujitsu Futro might fit your bill.

https://weisser-zwerg.dev/posts/dell-wyse-fujitsu-futro/

CaptClaude commented 1 year ago

I am very glad that you wrote this. It might seem like nobody reads these but we do and I found this at the exact time. I had been thinking about doing this for a long time, and given that I haven't been able to get any RPi4s and I have a very strong urge to teach myself about Docker. After finding this (today) I bought a 5060 (with WiFi) on Ebay (today). You pushed me over the edge and ich bedanke mich dafür ganz herzlich.

cs224 commented 1 year ago

@CaptClaude : you're very welcome!

tbone2k-git commented 11 months ago

I did several power consumption tests with the FUTRO S920 (nothing connected but ethernet, latest BIOS, OEM 19V 2A power supply).

Windows 10 / Server 2016 will consume 3.8W when idle (you need GPU drivers installed to get this low). Various Linux OS gives mixed results, with a custom Debian11 I once measured 5.5W, with other distros, like Debian12 or Proxmox, it is more like 7.8W. In standby mode (Windows/Linux) the S920 will use 0.45W and 0.3W when powered down.

The Linux drivers seem to be less power efficient, also CPU usage is noticeably higher for disk / network IO compared to Windows.

Can anyone confirm my findings or can explain the higher power consumption when using Linux? Are there specific AMD SOC drivers available somewhere maybe? When using Windows, I can even have a RDP Session open, the S920 does not care, still 3.8W, which is quite nice! I want this for Linux as well! o)

Thank you!

CaptClaude commented 11 months ago

Hey @tbone2k-git While power consumption is a factor, it was not the big factor for me. I had one goal and that was to run Proxmox with Home Assistant in a VM. It works great and has been rock solid for almost one year. I've only rebooted it a time or two and haven't measured the power consumption yet. Now I have some power-measuring smart sockets so I can, next time I need to reboot. I'll do that around the end of January when I unplug it in Texas ind plug it back in in New Mexico when I move there. I know this wasn't what you were looking for but I saw this come in and thought I'd let you know that at least one person reads these things.

cs224 commented 11 months ago

I've never tried anything else than Linux because of similar reasons as @CaptClaude explained. Sorry.