So ive never really paid attention to the power I consume running various servers over the years but now that ive cleaned up and consolidated im trying to gauge my power draw compared to others.
I run a Proxmox host with 13 HDDs, 6 NVMe drives and 2 U2 NVME drives, a Quattro P2200, RTX A2000, RTX 4070, Epyc CPU, HBA for HDDs, NVMe Card 4x4.
A Synology 2422 with 4SSD, 2 HDDs
A Synology expansion with 8 HDDs
I run about 500 watts off the wall for all this stuff and I think this is the lower end as I wasn’t using the GPUs. That includes a couple switches as well. Very silent runs very cool.
What do other people consume?
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All these comments are making me think about how I’d create the minimum power-use homelab. Was looking at 3 year old servers but now I’m thinking just building a low power but powerful system that uses very low power at idle but when in use I’m less worried as it’s more about getting the job done.
I’m hitting just under 5000 watts or 40 amps at 120v. Winter will be warm this year 😎
42*10^-6 MW for NUC, two drives, modem, switch, router and ap.
Soooo, 750w+ at the wall isn’t normal? 😬
I just power everything off except a couple of Raspberry PIs when I’m not using it. I did the math and where I live, it’s about $1/watt/year for loads that are on 24/7. It’s just not worth $400/year to power something that usually idle.
200w, I think it could be less if I enable c-states (don’t know why I turned them off)
3x optiplex 3070s
4 HDDs
4 APs, 4 PoE cams, 10g switch
274W currently.
But I have an Intel Arc A770 and 2 extra Samsung 980 Pro 2TB NVMe disks in an ASUS Hyper M.2 waiting to be installed when I get the time. I will be decommissioning a server when I do that though, so we’ll see what the running costs end up being. Probably slightly higher overall.
looks like a steady 330, single storage host 7 spinning disks, 4 SSDs, 4 rpi-4 with SSDs running k3s and the network stack (edgerouter 8-xg, 2 8 port poe switches and a 24 port es-24).
Changes I should make are to reduce drives / upgrade storage host in a couple of years and switch out to a single, larger poe switch (2.5G 24-48 ports), again in a couple of years.
About 2.9e-7 gigawatts.
for PVR (1 HDD), server(4 HDDs), and all those wall warts, standalone clocks, switches, CPE, battery chargers I left plugged in, TV and monitor standby power,…
I draw about 150 watts at idle.
1x pve server (ryzen 5, 32GB ram, 2x SSD, 8x HDD)
1x HP T620+ firewall
1x rpi2 backup pihole
1x switch
1x UniFi AP
1x spectrum modem
4100 VA or about 2650 W…
Not including my office setup, that’s just what’s in the rack. MX7000 chassis with 7x MX740c blades, redundant 40G core switches, a fiber channel SAN, two 48-bay NAS with 10TB drives, and 240v power with a 5000W UPS.
Not including the AC for the garage that the rack is in.
And no, I am not a masochist.
How did you got an mx7000?
2650 W
My whole flat uses less yearly
How on Zod’s green earth were you able to get your power factor to be that awful?!
Xeon processors in my case
Follow up question: how is your hearing? An actual blade setup would be loud as bombs inside a house.
Actually, the MX7000 is not terrible on noise comparatively. Not silent, obviously, but no worse than a typical 1U server.
Now, having that many compute modules may make that thing loud…
Yep. It’s not so bad. I typically only have 4 or so blades powered on at a time, so it’s not so bad. The MX9116N IOMs I have though require more cooling. Had I gone for the lesser ones, it’d probably be a little quieter.
I just calculated this would cost me £8272 p.a. ($10160) to run.
Ouchies.
Power costs me $0.09 kWh where I live, so it’s far more affordable for me to run.
Or €15111 little tiny bitty coins in chocolate/beer country.
I sit around 5kw average… Depending what the GPUs are doing
50 Watts
What are the specs of your server?
Running network equipment to include 4 POE cameras, a Unifi UDM Pro, 48 port poe switch, fans and 2 APs.
On the Server side I run a dell r730xd with 2 x m1200s in standby as I don’t have disks yet and I pull about 300w on avg.
~550w Nexus 9k 48p 10g 6p 40g 3x dell r630, 2x 10c e5 2640 v4, 384gb ram, 1x 960gb nvme ssd and 5x 1.92tb sata SSDs
Though it may change soon… not for the better