Apple M1 Mac Mini for Running Blue Iris
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Why would you want to? Crazy Overpriced and no room for a 3.5 drive. Not to mention not running it in a native windows environment.
What's another $1000 on a thunderbolt storage rack?? Ha totally agree with you though.....just curious on the power efficiency to performance. I run BI on a i7-9700k (originally built for another purpose) and it annoys me when I hook a kill-a-watt up to it and start doing the math
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There is nothing as reliable as local storage in the pc.
How much power is the pc using? If there is a discrete card in there remove it.
You started with a high performance processor that is less efficient than its non k counterpart.
Even so there is no way you could make your money back with any power savings, it would take you many many years.
You can just buy a 300 dollar i5-8500 elitedesk if you really want though it still doesnt make financial sense.
You could lower your power consumption by using the substream function to significantly reduce cpu consumption .