Let me guess: Sygic

When Sygic initially introduced their Android Auto integration, they put it behind a $50 paywall. I’d invested in that app multiple times because I liked it as an alternative to Google Maps, but asking me to pay that much just for AA was incredibly over the top.

it says Dedicated to the discussion of digital piracy.

Read that again, very slowly.

It’s not illegal to teach people how to download things, regardless of the ethics surrounding it.

Plus, it costs money to run a server that hosts a public discussion forum. It’s not illegal to ask for donations to support that.

I watched as everything booted, didn’t pull much more than 150 watts. But it’ll be interesting to see how it goes over time.

FYI - the cluster is pulling 115-140 watts.

• 1x Mac mini 2014, running OMV as a dedicated NAS (i5-4308U, 16GB RAM)
• 4-bay Sabrent DS-SC4B, attached to Mac mini (3x 4TB WD Reds in RAID5, 1x 4TB WD Black as hot spare)
• 1x 8TB WD backup drive (it’s something)
• 2x HP Elitedesk 800 G3 mini (or G4, don’t remember), both running Proxmox (i7-7700T, 32GB RAM each)
• 1x Dell Optiplex 7050 SFF running Proxmox (i7-7700, 32GB RAM)

All running multiple VMs (Docker and other) and LXC containers.

I’m impressed, honestly. I was expecting 200+ watts minimum. It’ll be interesting to see the spikes as it’s used over time. I am going to move the HA server (Lenovo M710q running HAOS on a Pentium G4560T & 4GB RAM) down to the cluster soon, as it’s sitting on my desk at the moment…

Shot them dead.

Yep, it’s awesome. We got it for $300 from Costco to supplement the smaller chest freezer, and it’s been an absolute godsend.

One is a smaller chest freezer, about 3 feet tall, probably 6 or 7 cubic feet if I had to guess. The other is a Hamilton Beach upright freezer from Costco. Both are full, so that helps with keeping them cold.

I know they’re gonna be a power suck lol. Three mini PCs, a SFF PC, 4-bay hard drive docking station, 8-port switch, and a RPi0w… Hoping for a max of 200W, but I suppose we’ll see what happens 🫤

Perfect, I don’t need to run the fans anymore!

Seriously though - we have 5 kids, and feeding the little shits is expensive, so we freeze a lot of things for storage. I thought for certain the freezers would be power hogs compared to an idling PC, but I was very surprised to be proven wrong.

Next up… Measuring my server cluster 😬

I just earned a 3-day ban from reddit for describing what we did to Nazis in the 40s. Welcome.

Color me shocked.

My cluster ranges from 4th gen to 8th gen Intel stuff. 8th gen is the newest I’ve ever had (until I built a 5800X3D PC).

I’ve seen people claiming 9th gen is “ancient”. Like…ok moneybags.