Comment on Got myself some energy monitoring Zigbee plugs and made an interesting discovery

• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Lat I checked, it was 40w idle for me on the kill-o-watt. Spinny rust and all!

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  • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Last.

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• lka1988@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I know they’re gonna be a power suck lol. Three mini PCs, a SFF PC, 4-bay hard drive docking station, 8-port switch, and a RPi0w… Hoping for a max of 200W, but I suppose we’ll see what happens 🫤

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  • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You might need to lower your expectations

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    • lka1988@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      FYI - the cluster is pulling 115 watts.

      • 1x Mac mini 2014, running OMV as a dedicated NAS (i5-4308U, 16GB RAM)
      • 4-bay Sabrent DS-SC4B, attached to Mac mini (3x 4TB WD Reds in RAID5, 1x 4TB WD Black as hot spare)
      • 1x 8TB WD backup drive (it’s something)
      • 2x HP Elitedesk 800 G3 mini (or G4, don’t remember), both running Proxmox (i7-7700T, 32GB RAM each)
      • 1x Dell Optiplex 7050 SFF running Proxmox (i7-7700, 32GB RAM)

      All running multiple VMs (Docker and other) and LXC containers.

      I’m impressed, honestly. I was expecting 200+ watts minimum. It’ll be interesting to see the spikes as it’s used over time.

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      • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I’m surprised! Seems like it should be more, but I haven’t done any wattage calculations in a while, so maybe power efficiency really has gotten that much better.

        Do you know if the drives were spun up or down at the time? I know idle vs. active makes a difference, but if they were spun down entirely, that’s kind of cheating.

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    • lka1988@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah… I know. 🙃

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  • VonReposti@feddit.dk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I see your 4-bay docking station and raise my 20-bay storage server. I even stopped counting how much the hardware costs for it :p

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    • lka1988@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s attached via USB to a 2014-era Mac Mini. Honestly not a huge fan of it.

      The kicker is that I’m upgrading it to a 7th-gen based server soon. My dad gave me an old Pentium 4-powered HP Proliant DL110, the case of which has 10x 3.5" drive bays, and is fully ATX compatible, so I’m gonna drop in a 7th gen mobo with Pentium G4560T (already have that on my desk), a newer PSU, and an HBA card. Don’t need a ton of processing power for a dedicated NAS running OMV - just a lot of expansion capacity.

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