Okay so currently my closest matching server would be my R730XD which is running dual E5-2650v4’s which should have a similar power profile(the only diffrence with the 2680 is the number of cores however this shouldn’t make much of a diffrence for low use workloads).

So currently with 2x SSD’s, 2x2650v4’s, 128GB RAM, 6x18TB HDD drives, 3x16TB HDD drives my power consumption sits around the 225-250W which over a month for me costs me about 50-75 euros a month in power(welcome to dutch power pricing…). However alot of this consumption comes from the drives, because before I put the HDD’s in and just had the SSD’s, the RAM and the CPU’s it had an idle of around 80-100W. But this is in an enterprise server with some chonky drives so I assume those account for 5-15W as they have a base speed.

Generally I would say unless you specifically need functions that the board provides(alot of PCIE lanes for example) just get a consumer CPU and you’ll be much better off as it will have better efficiency, performance and you’ll be on a modern platform. And if you go for AM4 it will be really cheap cuz of the introduction of AM5.

Honestly I do love tailscale, but every time when I start using it I am just like… meh. I don’t need a bunch of interconnected as I have 1 homelab, and for other stuff like my backup system it goes over v6 so there is no NAT to speak off(just a firewall). And for any remote devices I just use plain wireguard including my always on VPN on my devices.

However I will continue to recommend Tailscale to people who are new to selfhosting and don’t want to deal with all the networking bullshit, and hey if you want to not be reliant on the tailscale control server host headscale.

Jesus christ your lucky, those sell for some serious dough. I don’t even see Rx40 on the second hand market much, mostly going from Rx10/20’s to Rx30’s now.