Hi,
I want to share some experience with my homeserver setup.
I searched for a low power and higher performance Homeserver.
I finally go with a NUC14 135H (4PC, 8EC, 2UEC) because of the vPRO support and remote KVMoIP.
But the vPro Setup for KVMoIP is *can not write the word here* ;-)
But after some hours it is configured and working perfect.
You find many tutorials for vPRO KVM, short seach for "Meshcommander" setup.
In case of an error is this very helpful to have remote KVM support.
Hint:
For non US users, the Keyboard layout in bios to enter the initial password is US !
This is important because you need to enter also special characters for the password.
The location is different to US layout. This takes me some time to figure out ;-)
A NUC15 is also perfect, but needs Kernel 6.12 or higher to use the power saving features.
NUC14 is supported with proxmox 8.4 already.
So I used the NUC14 as server.
The network interface needs a tweak (NUC14 and 15), see
NUC14 networkfix
I use 2x m.2 SSDs, one 2280 as main, and a 2230 with 2242 extender as backup SSD and ISO storage.
With NUC14 you can also use an additional SATA drive, in NUC15 the SATA port was removed.
In bios I configured PL1 10W and PL2 20W, TAU 32 secs.
This is enough for my Homeserver setup.
Hint NUC15, you need to configure the FAN to manual mode save and enter Bios again before you can enter the PL1/PL2 value.
If you set PL1 lower than 10W the System become unstable (CPU throttling) especially in Bios mode.
FAN config startup at 60°C. This stops the FAN most of the time. Depending on the CPU load you have.
I finally use a passive case from Akasa to remove all FAN noise ;-)
Not so expensive and really high quality passive case.
But this was only nice to have, Ah.. no not really was a request from my wife to eliminate the 'sometime' FAN nosie totally ;-) --> WAF
You can configure the LXC or VM to the effiency cores only or even on the Ultra EC only.
Homematic, IObroker, NodeRed, … runs fine on UEC and save power during 24/7 usage.
Even a Windows 11 with 4 EC runs OK.
Routing USB ZigBee, USB Disks and Co. was no Problem.
With my setup I use about 12-20W, depending on the tasks.
I want to share some experience with my homeserver setup.
I searched for a low power and higher performance Homeserver.
I finally go with a NUC14 135H (4PC, 8EC, 2UEC) because of the vPRO support and remote KVMoIP.
But the vPro Setup for KVMoIP is *can not write the word here* ;-)
But after some hours it is configured and working perfect.
You find many tutorials for vPRO KVM, short seach for "Meshcommander" setup.
In case of an error is this very helpful to have remote KVM support.
Hint:
For non US users, the Keyboard layout in bios to enter the initial password is US !
This is important because you need to enter also special characters for the password.
The location is different to US layout. This takes me some time to figure out ;-)
A NUC15 is also perfect, but needs Kernel 6.12 or higher to use the power saving features.
NUC14 is supported with proxmox 8.4 already.
So I used the NUC14 as server.
The network interface needs a tweak (NUC14 and 15), see
NUC14 networkfix
I use 2x m.2 SSDs, one 2280 as main, and a 2230 with 2242 extender as backup SSD and ISO storage.
With NUC14 you can also use an additional SATA drive, in NUC15 the SATA port was removed.
In bios I configured PL1 10W and PL2 20W, TAU 32 secs.
This is enough for my Homeserver setup.
Hint NUC15, you need to configure the FAN to manual mode save and enter Bios again before you can enter the PL1/PL2 value.
If you set PL1 lower than 10W the System become unstable (CPU throttling) especially in Bios mode.
FAN config startup at 60°C. This stops the FAN most of the time. Depending on the CPU load you have.
I finally use a passive case from Akasa to remove all FAN noise ;-)
Not so expensive and really high quality passive case.
But this was only nice to have, Ah.. no not really was a request from my wife to eliminate the 'sometime' FAN nosie totally ;-) --> WAF
You can configure the LXC or VM to the effiency cores only or even on the Ultra EC only.
Homematic, IObroker, NodeRed, … runs fine on UEC and save power during 24/7 usage.
Even a Windows 11 with 4 EC runs OK.
Routing USB ZigBee, USB Disks and Co. was no Problem.
With my setup I use about 12-20W, depending on the tasks.
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