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 sit around 5kw average… Depending what the GPUs are doing
35w, powering 12 threads, 2 spinning disks, 4 ssds, no GPU, proxmox host with 4 guests.
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.
50 Watts
850 watts is my normal server rack load, however, with cameras and other switches I’m at 1100 watts 24/7 currently.
Add another 600 watts if I turn everything on in the server rack.
around 350W at the moment, but I’m in the middle of a data migration.
i7-8700 whitebox VM host
2x HP N54L with 4x 8TB SAS drives, one of them also has 2x 500GB SSD and 2x 500GB HDD
TPlink 24 port switch
a couple of UPSes
Huawei LTE router
probably some other stuff that I’ve forgotten
Will likely be adding a Dell Optiplex mini PC soon
At any given time? Up to 234 kW but that’s only because I don’t have anything with more wheaties than a 5.3 L LC9. Less than 500 W for the lab though.
about 60W for my server with 384gb ram
2 thin clients for various purposes so about 15-20w there
so about 75-80w for servers
80W for me in R730 running various VM and most of the time are just idle.
Network stack: UDM-Pro, USW-Agg, USW-16-PoE, Raspberry Pi for DNS, VPN & monitoring, U-LTE-Pro, USW-Flex, G4-Bullet, 2x UAP-AC-Mesh, 2x UAP-AC-LR, 1x UAP-FlexHD sitting on a 500 VA UPS pulling ~100W.
Homeserver (24/7) is a Ryzen 3700X-system with 13 HDDs usually pulling around 150W on it’s 1000VA UPS.
Power is quite expensive here in Germany, but the cost of small solar-setups is dropping, so I might setup a little PV-installation to offload costs. Would probably allow me to run more servers again^^
I’d love to know, but it’s best I dont.
3 HP DL380s, 4 drives each
1 HP DL380, 15 drives
1 Chenbro 1U storage server, 12 drives
1 supermicro 1U storage server, 12 drives
1 HP DL360, 4 drives I think
2 netgear business poe switches
2 fortigates
2 microtik 8 port 10G switches
2 smart UPS 1500 unitsI just dont want to know.
Have dropped from 500w (2 x R710) to 50-60w (5600X, 32Gb, 2 nvme drives, 3 sata SSDs, Coursir Platinum PSU, Gigabyte Mobo
Plus in the lab, I have a ONT and a small network switch (replacing a managed one saved 20w or so), and a work laptop, which brings the at the wall consumption of the entire lab to around 80-90w
Id be interested to see how folk with the Athlon processors are getting so much less power usage than me
Soooo, 750w+ at the wall isn’t normal? 😬
Our house has got multiple fridge freezers, an induction hob, several sets of Tvs.& gaming consoles, a semi-dedicated home theatre and office, as well as a 3kw hot tub - the power bill for my homelab is a rounding error amongst all that.