# Cheap 24/7 Energy Efficient Syncthing server? **URL:** https://forum.syncthing.net/t/cheap-24-7-energy-efficient-syncthing-server/11871 **Category:** Support **Created:** [July 24, 2018, 9:14am UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/cheap-24-7-energy-efficient-syncthing-server/11871 "2018-07-24T09:14:01Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 6
### Author: ![BigBrotherFarm](https://forum.syncthing.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/f08c70/32.png) [@BigBrotherFarm](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/BigBrotherFarm) #### Post date: [July 24, 2018, 12:33pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/cheap-24-7-energy-efficient-syncthing-server/11871/6 "2018-07-24T12:33:25Z")
Raspberry Pi 3 is a great low power device for this task but I have encountered a few issues. I am currently running a network of five Pi 3 devices. One of them is at a remote location and I can’t visit that location often. That Pi syncs around 12000 files daily to the other devices. This creates too much load to the mounted USB memory. Already after a few months one of the USB memory devices has failed. The internal SD card of the Raspberry Pi may also get corrupted if there is a power outage or a surge. This has happened to me too. In other words, if you decide to use a Pi 3 make sure you don’t do excessive amounts of writes to the USB memory or to the SD card. If you’re going to have it in a location with somewhat unreliable electricity you have to use a UPS. It might be better to go with a “real computer” with spinning disks or good quality SSDs that can handle the writes. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/cheap-24-7-energy-efficient-syncthing-server/11871)._