Mine runs at 30watts at idle.
That powers 4 switches, 1AP, and my proxmox system (framework laptop motherboard) which runs my router and my services.
What is everyone else’s usage and what does it power?
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Why are you asking, did my wife get you to ask?
But around 300w with 24 port switch, dish shelf (3.5" disks) and server with ssd’s and 2.5" disks
I feel for those in Europe, these are the current spot prices in NZ
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I approve of the y-axis label. But everything else is kinda missing… Like the information what’s depicted on the diagram. Cost of production? Price for a end-user? pre- or after tax? which country? and why did someone paint in 5 different colors? It certainly doesn’t match what i’m paying.
From New Zealand and is averaged wholesale spot prices for the 5 (main) produces here
Ah okay. Makes sense. Didn’t know that. And New Zealand has cheap electricity because of big hydroelectric plants and geothermal energy? Or is that a political decision like it is subsidized by the government by taking little taxes on energy?
Mostly hydro, It would probably be even cheaper if we didn’t subsidise big aussie firms to smelter aluminium here
My proxmox server runs at 60W idle, which is the main Reason why I am getting a new system soon. Old one is running a old (2011 I think) dual core celeron.
I try not too think about it 😬
I would guess everything together is around 800 Watts
Around 100w usually for:
- ccr2004
- crs309
- old epyc 7601 server (about 60w, 8 HDDs with spindown, 5 ssds and a mcx311 10G)
- homeassistant raspi separate from the main server
- poe switch for phone and ap.
All connected to a UPS so measuring is easy and power usage is constant. I would prefer lower as power cost is very high but there is not really anything significant to save at the moment as the server board has no standby function and i need it most of the time.
Mine has been idling around 300-400 watts. I’ve recently been making some changes that have it running more than usual. I’m hoping in the next week I will get it back below 300 watt idle. With the space I have and the current cost of solar panels I basically offset the entire labs electric usage with about $800 worth of solar gear. So I haven’t stressed too much about electric use.
What did you get to offset the cost? I’d like to do something but idk where to start looking.
I went with simple micro-inverters (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09N8T2741/) paired with some standard panels (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BRKK73QN/) Micro-inverters can’t be used when doing a full off-grid system but they are great at reducing energy bills. Super easy install that required no change to my home’s electric circuits.
What’s the recommended way to measure power consumption? Any instrument in particular?
@humanreader @hungover_pilot @selfhosted Most folks I know use a KILL A WATT.
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Mine runs a little under 18 W with one 8 port managed switch, a DSL modem, CM4-based router, a tiny Wifi AP, and an Intel Celeron J4105 based mini PC server.
I’m a simple man with a pi4 for my docker containers, one switch, so not much compared to my PC.
Would probably get a second pi4 if I need more resources.
Im also running a pi4 with docker containers but also my nextcloud instance. Been feeling it’s a bit sluggish at times so I recently ordered a cheap optiplex micro, and some upgrades for the ram, ssd and cpu. The pi4 will only be used for pi-hole now.
Avarage load for me is around 300w running two T320s, a R510, and a NUC. The T320s are clustered running plex, 'arrs, pihole/unbound, game servers, and odoo. The nuc serves two purposes, firstly to keep quorum in the cluster and secondarily as a low power device to run a secondary pihole/unbound instance incase the power goes out as it’s the only server that will stay on UPS power until the battery runs out. The R510 is my storage server with around 56TB and growing.
I am planning on adding a GPU server with a few tesla P40s as I’ve been using my workstation for these tasks which makes it difficult to use it for work.
About 1200w @120v
I have 200 of that at home, the other 1000 is in our data center at work, and I don’t pay for that power. It’ll be rough when I leave some day.
Between 3 switches, 4 servers, and my desktop also using one of my UPS units, I average about 850w, with peaks up to 1.1kw when my desktop is running. Luckily, electricity where I live is only 13cents/kwh.
I really don’t like how people most commonly try to justify the monetary cost of their power consumption.
In my opinion the way more important metrics should be how the energy you are consuming is generated and how much carbon emissions are caused by it.
Who cares that your 2000W@230V idle are “free”, if that means you are burning crude oil in your backyard to generate it…
Who cares
My wallet
I’m not saying that cost of power is entirely irrelevant.
I’m saying that “My setup consumes a lot of power, but that’s fine because it doesn’t cost me much” is kind of backwards. While monetary cost certainly is one of the arguments for energy efficiency, responsibly using resources and avoiding wasting energy are way more compelling ones imo. That especially applies if your energy isn’t produced via renewable means.
Even if power was entirely free of monetary cost, you shouldn’t waste it, don’t you agree?
Currently my UPS is reporting 207 watts, that’s with a unraid server (3600 + 32GB ram + 2060 super for plex, and 6 drives), a mini pc for pf sense, a rpi 4 running pihole and vpn server, a single poe ap, a modem, and security cameras… it can spike to 250w with multiple encodes going on from family … but overall not bad… I did have a dedicated 20A switch installed for just my network closet as well
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I’ve got:
R720 w/ 2697v2s, 12 hdds Some Intel 2011 box w/ 2667v2s A custom AM5 server w/ 7700x, 8 hdds An old Cisco enterprise 48 port (&4 SFP+) switch It seems to hover ~800w.
I’m looking into replacing a lot of it especially the Intel server because it’s used for just pfSense.My rack currently consumes about 300W. This includes the following hardware:
- Dell PowerEdge R730 with 128GB RAM, 1x E5-2630 v3 (the second socket is unpopulated), 5x HDD and 4x SSD
- MikroTik CRS309-1G-8S+ (8 port 10Gbit/s switch)
- MikroTik CRS326-24G-2S+ (24 port 1Gbit/s switch)
- MikroTik RB5009UPr (Router)
- Whitebox NAS with Intel Pentium Gold G5400, 16GB RAM, Adaptec RAID controller in IT mode, 19x HDD and one SSD
That’s a power efficient setup, nice!
