2026-10-13 20:44 UTC
Replies (18)
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@jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 2026-10-14 01:46
Too much. 38watts and spikes to 65watts from my Synology. My gaming laptop turn proxmox can spike to 350watts but normally sits at 50-75watts.
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@Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-10-14 05:33
On average it’s about 4kwh per day. I’m effectively off grid most of the time so the cost of electricity is irrelevant unless I go way overboard during a week of rain or something and I have to draw from the grid. I am about to move from an 18ru rack to 45… So… Might be some expansion in the future.
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@mlg@lemmy.world 2026-10-14 01:31
I can trip the measly 15 amp breaker by drawing 1.5kW on two servers + turning on an amplifier that is somehow on the same circuit despite being in a different room quite far from where my servers are lol. On average though I only draw like 350W. The huge spike only happens if I run a miner/llm on both of my servers or the during the startup spike. The 1kW chunk comes from some RTX Quadro 6000s which each eat 250W each when maxxed out. EDIT: Want to mention that most machines report their power draw (from mobo) without IPMI, so you can use your favorite stats collector use it to form a rough estimate of kWh total in case you don’t have a proper meter that records usage.
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@nibbs@lemmy.zip 2026-10-14 08:48
Usually around 205 W from the wall to UPS and 155 W used by devices connected to the UPS.
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@antsu@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-10-14 09:40
Around 400W, including switches and access points.
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@eleitl@lemmy.zip 2026-10-14 10:01
If I fire up everything in the rack it’s several kilowatts. Probably more than a 230 V wall socket can handle. Usually it’s way less, though right now it’s just a switch and the router/firewall, mere 57 W. I make most of my own net power with solar PV, soon 4 kWp in total.
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@czardestructo@lemmy.world 2026-10-14 10:30
My budget is under 100w for 3 servers with a combined 18tb of ssd and 28tb of spinning rust that stays spun down unless I need to so a cold backup.
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@glibg10b@lemmy.zip 2026-10-14 10:51
About 80 W. I do Folding@Home
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@bier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-10-14 10:52
My servers (3U) in the DC pull ~400w but my provider doesn’t do power/traffic billing just a flat fee ~230€ For my homelab if I power up my backup server pull a backup and then write it to tape and my gf is gaming it’s 900w Idle is like 150w
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@Colloidal@programming.dev 2026-10-14 11:31
Something like 25W at idle for the single server I operate. I’m not counting networking because I’m using the equipment that I already have and need just to distribute internet at home.
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@PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 2026-10-14 11:53
7 or 8w idle for the server. Comes to about 10eur per year. I couldn’t justify using more without feeling like a hypocrite who also advocates for energy conservation.
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@HamsterRage@lemmy.ca 2026-10-14 12:45
3 Lenovo Tiny’s, one HP Mini, 3 external drives, a switch and 2 modems runs just under 100W.
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@BCsven@lemmy.ca 2026-10-15 03:29
40 watts normal up to 60 watts. That includes modem and router. PC is fanless system.
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@JerkyChew@lemmy.world 2026-10-15 05:19
I’m actually up at 1am because the two servers I brought online pushed my usage to around 1200W and it was too much for my UPS plus solar battery setup to keep up with. Also I just discovered that my power cable was too high a gauge and it melted to the extension cord, so I had to pry it apart with a screwdriver. Oops. At full tilt I pull around 2500 watts, but I haven’t been fully up and running in months because I haven’t had enough available circuits in my panel. Just upgraded my home service to 400a so I should be able to run some new outlets this weekend.
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@sj_zero@social.fbxl.net 2026-10-15 05:22
My empire of dirt is basically nothing. I'm using low powered computers, mostly fanless. The watt meter on the main power bar is like 15W.
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@oha@lemmy.pobierz.net 2026-10-15 06:49
Around 5kWh/day. My Biggest Power drain is my homeserver/hypervisor/nas/whatever (5600G, 64gb ram, 9xHDD) which uses around 3.5kWh. Wifi is provided by 2x Extreme Networks WS-AP3825i and 2x Ubiquiti UniFi 6 Plus which total to around 660W/h. My Router is a small dual-nic shuttle pc with a Pentium G4560 drawing like 310W/h Switching is done by an Aruba 2930F-24G-4SFP+ Switch that consumes 490W/h I could probably squeeze out a few more watts if I replace the HDD’s with higher density ones and virtualise my router but I really dont feel like doing that right now…
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@dieTasse@feddit.org 2026-10-13 21:13
My nas takes about 40 Wh. And my network machine (proxmox + openwrt) about 20 Wh. When I upgraded my nas a year ago it was actually drawing twice as much, I have since then switched to more efficient processor (amd from normal to E) and I took out graphic card that I didn’t use. I could have in theory merge those two, but I wanted to separate networking from nas+apps. I don’t know how much my smart devices take but I don’t have many so it can be up to 50 Wh total maybe. But that is more smart home than self hosting 😀
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@stuner@lemmy.world 2026-10-14 17:31
My NAS/home server takes about 180 kWH/year, or 20W on average (costs me about 5 Euro/month). This feels like a lot to me and makes up a good chunk of my total energy usage. What I did to optimize it is mostly select a “low-power” x86 platform, and limit the number of disks. I also decided not to use TrueNAS because it couldn’t let the disks from going to sleep. The machine hosts 10 TB of usable storage (+RAID 1), syncthing, immich, file server, Influx DB, Grafana, and a few other services.