What is your self hosted power draw?

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨roofuskit@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

Selfhosters what is the power draw of your entire setup? And have you done anything special to manage it you’d like to share?

Including all network equipment I use around 110kWh of good ol’ 120V 60Hz USA juice per month. Averaging about 215 watts of power draw for my systems. Nothing amazing, but I like to think that it’s a conservative setup for everything I accomplish with it. I’m paying around $25 a month for my setup. None of that includes my work PC or personal PC, just hosting infrastructure.

Other than trying to make sure all power states are available on my server I haven’t done a lot of power conservation.

I’m curious what you all have.

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kalman@dboft.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
~500 watts continuous.

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TheKrill@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
late but i think i lose the thread. The entire house runs at slightly over 1.5kW, and self hosted equipment accounts around 1.2kW of that. The daily cost is only about £2 though due to solarand batteries.

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heartSagan5@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
My microwave, I think?

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kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Around 1000-1200 watt continuously. Still our electricity cost is.less then 0.

Anyway my old 11gen dell power edge servers cause the biggest power draw. But I am not ready to upgrade them due to the current memory shortage.

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andrewoidxyz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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Mine draws around 15-20 watts. I’m mostly using low-power hardware: a Rock 5b as my main server, a 2tb nvme ssd, a 2tb hdd and a Glinet travel router (fine since i live in an apartment).

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stuner@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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.

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- roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Yeah I use Unraid for multiple reasons but being able to spin down disks when not in use was a big factor. I have 6 mechanical drives totalling 56TB of usuable storage so it was important to me they don’t all need to be on at the same time. TrueNAS also comes with some other headaches, I like being able to drop in whatever disk I need to for expansion or replacement.
  
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  - stuner@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    I like being able to drop in whatever disk I need to for expansion or replacement.
    
    I didn’t move that far away (to Debian + ZFS), so that limitation still remains. Although the addition of Raid-Z expansion should alleviate things quite a bit.
    
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- EddoWagt@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  That’s the one thing I don’t like about Truenas. It technically can spin down disks, but there’s no way to force them. You can set the idle timer to 5 minutes, but then it constantly spins them back up again. Now I just power the entire system down with home assistant outside of the usage hours and I can power it up again with home assistant using wake on Lan.
  
  A bit goofy, but it works for me
  
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PieMePlenty@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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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- los0220@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Nice What hardware are you running?
  
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  - PieMePlenty@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    11th gen i3 NUC, headless Debian.
    
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julianwgs@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I am using a Raspbery Pi 5 8GB as my NAS & homeserver. It is quick and performant enough while having an idle power draw which is not really noticeable on your electricity bill. Very happy with it.

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ultimaluz@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Most of my stuff lives on a cheap hetzner vps so that power is someone else’s problem lol. at home it’s a raspberry pi that’s always on (a few watts) and a bitaxe miner doing about 19W, that’s around 14 kWh a month, like 3 euros here. the gaming pc is the only hungry thing and it stays off, the pi wakes it with wake-on-lan when I actually need it. took me a while to get the bios settings right (erp off, power on by pci-e) but it was worth it.

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- andrewoidxyz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  is mining worth it for you?
  
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LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I can’t believe I’m the lowest power draw at 50w. I thought that was pretty high.

That includes all my network hardware, my NAS, and my server. Basically everything that is “always on”

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- tburkhol@slrpnk.net ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  All these people saying 500, 600, 700+ watts - it’s almost hard to believe. My “gaming” computer, with two monitors, peaks around 400W on graphics-heavy games, and the monitors are like 120 of that. I suppose, though, if you’re running a server-class CPU, a half dozen HDDs, and a GPU for continuous transcoding or mining, the it wouldn’t be too hard to get there.
  
  I run a dozen containers on an N100 with a couple of HDDs, VOIP device, router & cable modem on 63W, and I’ve considered that a pretty fair deal for a home lab. Of course, that only serves the household - nothing really offered to the public.
  
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  - Dultas@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    My rack server uses 150W idle. Granted that’s 2 processors and 48 cores, 256GB ram, and 8 case fans that you can’t cycle less than 35% even though they don’t need to be anywhere near that high.
    
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- InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  I mean, my phone charges at 60W. Granted, it’s not charging 24/7 but 50W is pretty good indeed.
  
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ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Way too damn much, around 700w between 4 rack servers and associated gear

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- patruelis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Wow, that’s quite a bit.
  
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  - ShellMonkey@piefed.socdojo.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    If I recall right off hand it’s 92 cores, 64+8+8+12 between them. Been looking to merge a couple of the smaller ones into the others but it’s not a small task.
    
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some_random_nick@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’d say no more than 15W.
1x Jetson Nano
1x SSD
3x 2.5" HDDs
1x RPi 3B wih Pihole

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czardestructo@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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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snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Like 3-12w but I’m only running a little mostly jellyfin server

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tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
65W for

two Lenovo tiny proxmox nodes, each with nvme + SATA SSD + second NIC

two switches (5/8 port)

PCengine APU running OpnSense

Raspi4 with Zigbee antenna

Mini PC + JBOD (4 SSD in total)

Small OpenDTU device

Keeping power consumption low was my design goal, but I eventually added the secondary NICs and additional switch for Proxmox replication and management traffic.
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- 16mhz@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Cool setup, i used to have an 8th gen tiny lenovo pc. Pretty powerful for its size.
  
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  - tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yeah they’re amazing value, got them for 150 each with 32GB RAM right before the AI craze. It’s sixth gen i7 processors and they’re perfectly fine for everything I’m throwing at them.
    
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glibg10b@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
About 80 W. I do Folding@Home

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CameronDev@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
NAS sits at 24w idle. Security cams are drawing 19w of poe power, but I suspect there is a bit more being used in total. I have another NUC using probably around 24w max.

I’ll slap some power meters on the switches and main nuc and try get some more accurate numbers.

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Maroon@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
My server is a OnePlus5T running Post marketOS. It runs AdGuardHime, a Static Website, nginx, and Anubis.

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HamsterRage@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
3 Lenovo Tiny’s, one HP Mini, 3 external drives, a switch and 2 modems runs just under 100W.

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Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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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- Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Wow, off grid and you pull that much.
  
  Impressive.
  
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  - Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨53⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
    That’s only about 170w continuous over 24h. This time of year, on a good day I’ll generate 90kwh from solar and use about 60kwh total.
    
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bier@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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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mesamunefire@piefed.social@piefed.social ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
5 w for the machine. I think the router is 20w.

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eleitl@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
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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nik282000@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Used to be 200watts bang on but the latest round of updates bumped it up to 210Watts. Everything is on a UPS and I pull measurements from that into an RRD DB (because I like to make my own stuff). It’s kinda cool to see how heavy disk use or CPU intense tasks will increase power draw by up to 50W, or some times or when the power drops off sharply I know my NVR container is not working because 6 ffmpeg tasks all stopped at the same time.

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1x T330 with 4 disks and 2 dozen services.

1x H340 NAS with 2 disks

1x PoE switch

3x PoE cameras

2x Desktop switches

1x Desktop router

1x Cable Modem
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- lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  RRD
  
  That’s a name I haven’t heard in a minute!
  
  I see the rrdtool gallery is still up and my graph is still in there 🤭. (No it’s not the Christmas graph, that one’s insane.)
  
  I’m using Influx nowadays but maybe I should revisit good old rrdtool for old times’ sake.
  
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  - nik282000@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    It seemed like the easiest way to store multiple years of data in a format that wouldn’t change or disappear.
    
    I found it super easy to work with as a never-went-to-school programmer (in the rime before claude).
    
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antsu@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Around 400W, including switches and access points.

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Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I’m drawing 4.474kWh per day on average, and drew 139 kWh over the last month.

I have EcoFlow batteries on both A and B PDUs.

Stuff that can be powered off (mining, redundant power supplies) gets the wall outlet feeding ups b and pdu B turned off at 4pm and turned back on at 9pm to align with my time of use rate plan.

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- clb92@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
  So, averaging about 193W last month, that seems alright. What kind of hardware are you running?
  
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  - Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
    Rack mount synology bad, tplink Omada switch, wireless access point, rack fans, and a rack mount nutanix server repurposed as proxmox, but it’s only drawing on the IPMI as I’ve powered it down and moved any services over to containers on the NAS.
    
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Joelk111@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
About 300-400 watts. I should put it on a smart plug to track it over time. I have a NAS with 16 HDDs, an outdated super overkill switch that I should replace to save some power, and a few old laptops.

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- lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  What’s a good smart plug to use?
  
  I assume it’s a thing you place between the machine’s power cable and the wall, and can be queried over WiFi?
  
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  - Joelk111@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I use Home Assistant, and prefer Z Wave or Zigbee, as those are gaurenteed to not call home and not rely on a third party server. Third Reality makes some pretty good stuff. And yeah, it’d go between the wall and my server rack.
    
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- Dultas@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  A lot of UPSs will have power metering as well if you’re not already on one.
  
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  - Joelk111@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I am, and it does, that’s how I got the 300-400w estimate. It is connected to the NAS and shuts it down gracefully when power goes out. Wonder if the NAS can also read the power usage over that cable. Might just be easier to use a $15 zigbee plug though to get the data directly into Home Assistant.
    
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Arda@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
homelab running linux mint with about 60 docker containers about 45w

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nibbs@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Usually around 205 W from the wall to UPS and 155 W used by devices connected to the UPS.

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AustralianSimon@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
When nothing is running my house power draw is about 500-800w. So my battery keeps things going until the next day.

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