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 pay 0.7 EUR/kWh though it’s capped at 0.4 EUR/kWh at the moment. Which is why I make net half of my power myself. At some 1 EUR/Wp it pays off really quickly.
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
< 10W, I’m guessing my router, modem and WiFi AP take more power than the PI4 with 1 SSD and J4125 with 2 SSDs
Yep. Same hahah.
And I am even using my Pi4 as an Access Point too execpt nexcloud jellyfin kavita piholenpivpn etc
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.
I don’t know, but my electric bill is certainly painful.
Average usage for me hovers around 180-200W. I’m running the following:
- unRAID server with a Ryzen 5 5600G proc, 3 SSD/2 HDD.
- QNAP TS-251+
- Proxmox server running an i5-4460, 2 SSD/1 HDD
- UDM Base
- Unifi 8port gig switch with 3 ports providing about 12W POE, give or take.
- ISP provided modem
Given all it does for me, I’m ok with the tradeoff.
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.
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.
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?
55W idle for 3 servers, network gear and UPS. I live in the US but electricity is still expensive and I try to keep everything efficient. My primary/most powerful server with 20TB of SSD only uses 22W idle.
5ish watts. Raspberry pi 4 with a 2TB SSD for backups.
Mine is ~300w @ 230v most of the day. It varies only on what is being used.
when power fails and i have to switch to generator, the servers stay about the same but I can add about 250w to that for my PC, modem(nbn) etc . (which is why i know this info!)
300-350W (which currently equals about 100€/month). Running two proxmox servers in a cluster + 2 routers, modem and switch
Around 180W
- VMware server (AMD 3700X 128xmemory 2xnvme 2xssd 2xhdd)
- 8bay Synology
- 24 post switch
- Protectli firewall
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.
