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I'm new to selfhosting and I find myself rarely using the server, only when I need to retrieve a document or something.

I was thinking of implementing something to make it power on, on demand, but I'm not sure if this might be harmful for the HDDs, and I'm not sure how to implment it if so.

What's your recommendation to do so? I'm running a dell optiplex 3050

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[–] poVoq 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A RasberryPi uses so little power when idleing that turning it on and off on demand makes not a whole lot of a difference. It is different though with OP's x86 with spinning rust drives.

[–] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 2 points 4 months ago

They're wanting the Pi to do more than one thing. I'm assuming they're running Klipper but also want to run a file server or PiHole, for example, on the same Pi.