I’m in the process of wiring a home before moving in and getting excited about running 10g from my server to the computer. Then I see 25g gear isn’t that much more expensive so I might was well run at least one fiber line. But what kind of three node ceph monster will it take to make use of any of this bandwidth (plus run all my Proxmox VMs and LXCs in HA) and how much heat will I have to deal with. What’s your experience with high speed homelab NAS builds and the electric bill shock that comes later? Epyc 7002 series looks perfect but seems to idle high.
Mine is about 8W on average.
It’s an Odroid H3 that runs Nextcloud, Jellyfin, AudiobookShelf, a bunch of websites and Home Assistant.
It has 2x Sata SSD’s connected.
This setup is not high speed at all, so it’s not what you asked about. I just answered the headline question. ;)
If any air ventilation fan turns on in the house it uses at least 3x that power, so I don’t calculate the price on my servers power draw as it almost not noticable.