2024 Homeserver I was looking for a low energy home server setup to run my very modest 24x7 load: a backup target, a wiki, some tooling around my solar roof, media serving - the usual stuff. My requirements are: low idle power consumption: < 20 Watts on the wall can run containers I want to reuse the components that I hve: a random power cupply, some disks, the chassis etc. easy, robust, fun The Search Searching for a configuration was harder than I expected: It’s not easy to predict the power consumption of some configuration before you get your hands on it.