Building A Power Efficient Home Server

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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:16 Why care about power efficiency?
02:26 Platform (Motherboard & CPU)
05:34 Ultra small-form-factor PCs
06:18 miniITX Motherboards
07:41 Efficient mATX and ATX motherboards
09:22 Package C-States
10:34 Devices that prevent low C-States
11:43 Power supply
13:37 Storage
13:58 Sponsored segment
14:40 Storage (cont.)
15:27 To spindown or not to spindown?
17:30 Tiered caching
19:25 Outro

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