Lemmings, what's your self hosted server power usage?

I'll just come out and say it: 50W. I know, I know an order of magnitude above what's actually needed to host websites, media center and image gallery.

But it is a computer I had on-hand and which would be turned on a quarter of the day anyway. And these 50W also warm my home, although this is less efficient than the heat pump, of course.

What's your usage? What do you host?

merthyr1831 ,

No idea!

Going from publicly-available info though:

Rpi4B - 6.4W max (more like 5 in real world usage)

Cpu case fan - 1.4W

2x SSD - ~6W each

13.8 to ~18 depending on what the SSDs are pulling i guess. I use it as an *arr seedbox and plex server (up to 1080p h264 works flawlessly!) as well as nextcloud

possiblylinux127 ,
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1.21 giggawats

elephantium ,
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What do you get when you cross Family guy with BTTF?

1.21 giggetywatts!

qaz , (edited )

~25W which consists of:

  • Mini PC
    • Lenovo Thinkcentre M700 Tiny
    • i5-6500T
    • 8GB DDR4
    • 500GB SSD
  • External USB 3.5" enclosure
    • 2 x 2 TB HDD
  • Network switch
    • 4 Ports Gigabit

I've been thinking about upgrading because the CPU isn't that fast, the RAM ain't that much and I want to add a few more HDD's.
I've seen a pretty interesting Lenovo P520 with 64GB RAM a CPU that's 3x times as fast and room for 6 HDD's for €350, but the power consumption I can see online (80W) isn't that appealing with European electricity prices.

kylian0087 ,

About 500W. 1 self build server 1 Dell R510 and one dell R710.
This also includes a bit of network gear like a 48 port switch.

rambos ,

35W

DIY PC with 2 SSD and 1 HDD (it used to be 22W with 3 SSDs and no HDD)

Hosting arr stack, nextcloud, immich and many more (~40 services in total)

Strit ,
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Mine is around 10W average.

It runs:

  • Websites
  • my blog
  • Jellyfin
  • Home assistant
  • Nextcloud

And a few other things.

ikidd ,
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Probably about a kilowatt.

ssdfsdf3488sd ,

50 watts is maybe halfof one of my 10 gig switches...

owen ,

Damn son, what're you runnung?

ssdfsdf3488sd ,

dell powerconnect 8164's and arista 7050tx's . House is wired with copper so 10 gig copper is what I have to use and that's power hungry.

twei ,

Damn, your switches are using that much? I have a MikroTik CRS518 and it's using like 40 Watts on idle (transceivers not included)

ssdfsdf3488sd ,

yah, my house is wired with copper and 10 gig copper uses a lot of power. It doesn't really help that the new slightly less power hungry 48 port 10 gig switches are thousands of dollars. I'm using 100 to 150ish watts per 10 gig switch to be able to buy the switch for under 500 bucks instead of using 60-100 watts and paying 2-5k per switch...

walden ,

Good timing for this thread. I just finished consolidating 2 computers worth of fun into 1 newer computer that can do it all. I sold my wife on the idea with electricity as the reasoning.

In the end, it uses 30 watts less, which is not as much as I had hoped. That's about $5 a month.

180 watts with an i5-13400, 9 spinning disks, 1 M.2 SSD, no extra GPU, 24 port switch (powers 3 AP's), modem, Mikrotik router, and a large UPS. I wonder if the UPS uses any power as a trickle charge for the batteries.

slazer2au ,

What are your electricity prices that 30w costs €5/m

buzziebee ,

Spain would probably be around that much if my calculations are correct.

walden ,

30w x 24 hr./day *30 days/mo. = 21.6 kWh. I pay about $.25/kWh, so $5.40.

dontwakethetrees ,
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Don’t have anything spectacular performance wise but my late 2012 i7 Mac Mini Server is reporting ~14w (with my services running and downloads happening) and I saw bursts up to 30w. Not too bad for 12yo Mac running Homebridge, 2 Navidrome instances, Jellyfin, nginx, Transmission, and SMB (looking into Nextcloud to replace that).

mlaga97 ,

~120W with an old server motherboard and 6 spinning drives (42TB of storage overall).

Currently running Nextcloud, Home Assistant, Gitea, Matrix, Jellyfin, Lemmy, Mastodon, Vaultwarden, and a bunch of other smaller stuff alongside storing a few months worth of surveillance footage, so ~$12/month in power certainly ain't a bad deal versus paying for hosted versions of even a fraction of those services.

mlaga97 ,

I have looked at the ROI for getting more efficient kit and ended up discovering that going for something like a low-idle-power-draw system like a NUC or thin client and a disk enclosure has a return period on the order of multiple years.

Based on that information, I've instead put that money towards lower hanging fruit in the form of upgrading older inefficient appliances and adding multi-zone temperature control for power savings.

The energy savings I've been able to make based on long-term energy use data collected via Home Assistant has more than offset all of the electricity I've ever used to power the system itself.

lemann ,

About 150w total, trying to bring it down since electricity here is pretty expensive.

4 machines: two 4th gen i5, one 6th gen Nuc (Have two more but not set them up yet), and one HP thin client. Also two UPSes, and 3 cameras (previously four, but one was accidentally damaged).

Hosting Home Assistant, Zabbix, Palworld, SMB, Transmission, Plex and a bunch of other misc stuff.

Kind of contemplating moving everything to a 10th gen Nuc, but thinking a Ryzen based mini pc might be a better option

Bizarroland , (edited )
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Mine is roughly 300 watts, much of which is from using an old computer as a NAS separate from my server server.

However, I put the whole thing in the basement next to my heat pump water heater which sucks the heat out of the air and puts it into my water, so I am ameliorating the expense by at least recapturing some of the *waste heat.

scarecrow365 ,

Average load for me is about 750W. I run my desktop from one of the UPS units in my rack, so when that's on it sits around 1.1kW.

The 750W load is across 4 rack servers(1 is the NAS with 12 disks) and 3 switches.

Norgur ,

6w or so in idle, 50w under load with HDDs and RPi combined

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