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[โ€“] Tja@programming.dev 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My 4 bay HDD NAS uses around 45W, 50W with some light load, 70W spinning up. That's about 1kWh per day, or 150 EUR per year.

I use it in my room, so I very much care about noise.

More durability = less redundancy (less cost) + less frequent swaps (less cost). My anecdotal evidence is 1 failed SSD in 15 years (160GB Intel, basically first Gen). Every other SSD is still working. I have a drawer full of failed HDDs.

Plus more performance.

[โ€“] m0darn@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago

Geez power is expensive for you folks.

In Vancouver we pay 0.14 CAD per kWh (.096 EUR) for usage beyond 675kWh in a month. (0.0975CAD, 0.068 EUR, before the threshold)