The Umbrel Home is basically a $400 NUC whose power draw should idle around 10-12 watts, with activity around 30-40 watt or so.

The Dell Optiplex power supply can accomodate up to 180 watt draw if ever needed. Id speculate itd idle a little higher around 14 watts and actively be pushing around 65-70. Where im at that translates to an operational cost difference of about $40/year. So in theory, if this node remains in service longer than 5 years it may be cheaper to have gotten a NUC.

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Umbrel on raspberry *

Look at bill and consumtions:

where are you getting 100w?

Thats the power supply. Its limit is 180w. It doesnt draw that much on the regular.

Yes minimum is 90w without load but I put 100w because I think the server have programs running in background . Raspberry usually have less than 10w but I choose 15w because same programs need a lot o power from raspberry. Is just an estimation, not real but I want to show you that solution with optiplex is not good solution for server if you don’t have cheap energy or free.

Even the raspberry pi doesnt draw 15w all the time.

In 2 years you pay another optiplex ( by bill of power consumtion)

Long term is ok to have raspberry.

If you have free energy from solar pannels is ok to have what that optiplex