"This Is The ONLY Home Server You Should Buy"

There's a reason why "recycle" is at the bottom of "reduce, reuse, recycle" list. Reusing existing computers is better than manufacturing new ones, unless there's a massive efficiency gap. Especially if they're being powered by clean energy.

The fake out around 9 minutes in, leading into the spreadsheet calculators for both long-term costs and CO2 emissions is why I appreciate your content! This is the type of information so many tech channels skim over with newer technologies, so I’m glad you care to dive into the facts.

Thank you for this video! I always appreciate when people don't discount the footprint of producing so many devices (with complex and harmful supply chains) that usually are destined for a landfill after 5-10 years of office use. It's easy for people to focus over minute idle wattage differences and lose the forest for the trees.

Thanks for this video! I loved the second half when you dug deeper into calculating the 'real' cost of a new pc vs using an older less efficient one. Videos like this makes me proud to support you!

As someone who is currently hosting a mail/web server on a Dual Atom 330 board from 2009 I appreciate your more in-depth view rather than chasing the newer = better. I'm hoping to upgrade soon to a second hand USFF PC then I can move my Home Assistant off of the ancient Celeron laptop into a container on the new machine.

I've been using an Intel N95 the last few months on a daily basis in a laptop. It preforms surprisingly well. Cant wait to see this chip start to replace Celerons.

Just got this video randomly recommended, and I totally loved this review taking into consideration the environmental impact of the manufacturing, and operating costs into the costs analysis, subscribed I would love to see more videos diving into these subjects, you could probably reach a broader audience by simply showing the results using a bar plot that compares the real emissions and real cost of a product

good job. i love the focus on wattage and CO2 footprint, even if they were rough estimates. the wattage cost calculation is something i typically do too

This is a good shout and a good calculation. I have an old lenovo x260. It will idle at 4w and with a couple of drives on it it will get up to 20 or so when transcoding but i think its doing very well. Thanks for looking at the euro prices, i really didnt expect that vision from someone in the states i appreciate that. My elec is 27p kwh. I think in the grand scheme of things the numbers arent a concern really. As a perspective i measured my old athlon 1800 desktop "retro" machine and it idles at 100w before you do anything at all so we are winning either way.

The 3R's - reduce, reuse, recycle. In this order. So reusing old stuff is usually better then recycling it.

I took a lot of interest in the second half of your video. Definitely makes me want to research my rough energy footprint just for the heck of it. Love your content, keep it up!

You are the first person I see on YouTube whip out a spreadsheet to calculate C02 impact on the environment and I want to take a couple of seconds to applaud you for it. It means a lot to me and I hope you continue to do this. It is important and I want to thank you for the time it took to include it in the video. Thanks.

And this is why I love your channel. Talking about all the facets of a little box like this. Loved the breakdown of environmental impact between this guy and that old 6500T system.

Seeing the sustainability calculations was interesting. Thanks for including that!

I really like the in-depth analysis of power consumption and co2 emissions with the spreadsheets.

To be honest, the N100 from my own perspective is a terrible option for a NAS/home server CPU. It's incredibly expensive at $128 US. The Celerons are much much cheaper at $30-40 and provide very good performance for the money, while the Ryzen Embedded CPUs only cost somewhat more than this N100 and come with SO MANY MORE PCI Express lane, I tell everyone that asks me to put the N100 in the NASes here at work that we're putting something better in.

It would have been very useful to run one day with a fixed set of tasks on each system to get real-world daily KWh usage. As it is, that's the big question that none of us can answer without building both systems and trying it ourselves. But good work to bring more total-cost-to-the-planet-and-mysefl factors to the discord !

Thank you for the analysis at the end! I got into recycled mini pcs and laptops last year and won't go back to buying new hardware again ... there's so much good second hand stuff out there that gets the job done perfectly fine.

Awesome that you covered the benefit of reuse vs newly manufactured !!

Thanks! Thanks! Thanks! One of the few channels that consider the production footprint.