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?
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
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.
Probably about a kilowatt.
Depends where you draw the line of the home lab. I’m drawing 160W at the moment, but that includes a dedicated CCTV PC (running Proxmox in a cluster) and POE switch. The CCTV I don’t consider part of the home lab really, the alternative would be an off the shelf box and no one would consider that.
The 160W also includes a 24 port switch (I’m only using 8) and the FTTP power, plus the rake from the UPS. So probably total the actual homelab server would be about 80-100, I guess. But even then it runs my router using opnsense, so I don’t have a separate router box to power. It also serves as my “cloud” storage, so I’m not saving watts, but I’m saving the cost there.
I could get the power down quite a bit by changing the 6 HDD for 2 mirrored HDD, but the cost of large enough disks means it’d be years before it paid for itself, so I’m sticking with 6 small disks for now.
I’ve thought about trimming things down and going lower powered, but it all comes back to storage and needing the large storage online all the time.
Plus I consider a 100W a big saving when before I ran a dual Xeon Dell R710 which used around 225W under the same workload.
6w or so in idle, 50w under load with HDDs and RPi combined
120w continuous. Working on bringing it down, because that’s $1/day.
I’d rather spend that money on new hardware every year.
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.
370W average.
3 x Lenovo x3650 M5 (Proxmox Nodes)
- 1 x Xeon E5-2697A v4
- 128GB DDR4 ECC
- 2 x 960GB sATA SSD
- 3 x 900GB SAS3 10K RPM HDD
- 1 x nVidia Quadro M2000
TP Link TL-SG3428X switch
Raspberry Pi 3B+ (physical Pi-hole server)
Generic Mini PC Intel N3150 (OpenVPN client)
Dell Optiplex (OPNSense firewall)
- Intel i5 4590
- 8GB
Is that 370watt across all of them or per fat server? I ask because three m5 sound like a lot of power drain!.
And thanks for sharing!
That’s for everything listed above. This is measured straight from my UPS which everything is connected to.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters AP WiFi Access Point DNS Domain Name Service/System Git Popular version control system, primarily for code HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web NAS Network-Attached Storage NUC Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers NVMe Non-Volatile Memory Express interface for mass storage PSU Power Supply Unit PiHole Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole) Plex Brand of media server package PoE Power over Ethernet RPi Raspberry Pi brand of SBC SATA Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage SBC Single-Board Computer SSD Solid State Drive mass storage SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access nginx Popular HTTP server
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1.21 giggetywatts!
I use an Intel SBC with 10W TDP CPU in it. With a HDD and after PSU inefficiency, it draws about 10-20W depending on the load.
That’s impressive.
What do you use the system for? And services like PiHole or media server?
That’s impressive.
Yeah, you really don’t need a lot of CPU power for selfhosting.
It’s a J4105, forgot to mention that.
What do you use the system for? And services like PiHole or media server?
Oh, sorry, forgot to add that bit.
It’s mainly a NAS housing my git-annex repos that I access via SSH.
I also host a few HTTP services on it:
The services I use most here are Paperless and Piped.
Mealie will be added to that list as soon as the upstream PR lands which might be later this evening.
My Immich module is almost ready to go but the Immich app has a major bug preventing me from using it properly, so that’s on hold for now.
I do want to set up Jellyfin in the not too distant future. The machine should handle that just fine with its iGPU as Intel’s Quicksync is quite good and I probably won’t even need transcoding for most cases either.
I probably won’t be able to get around setting up Nextcloud for much longer. I haven’t looked into it much but I already know it’s a beast. What I primarily want from it is calendar and contact synchronisation but I’d also like to have the ability to share files or documents with mere mortals such as my SO or family.
The NixOS module hopefully abstracts away most of the complexity here but still…Makes sense that basic file hosting shouldn’t use much power.
Sharing stuff with friends and family is in my plan, eventually, not sure what approach to take yet, but I’d like to avoid an app for them, if I can (people are resistant to apps, I kind of get it).
I’ve looked at Nextcloud/Owncloud a few times, and it always seems like a lot more than I need, though I also want to move my calendar, contacts, etc, to my own hosting. Not sure what the right answer is, lol.
My setup already goes quite a bit beyond basic file hosting.
There is no self hosted service I could imagine to need that I’d expect not to be able to host due to CPU constraints. I think I’ll run into RAM constraints first; it’s already at 3GiB after boot.
~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.
- Mini PC
~600W. 2 machines: Dell 730 8 disks running multiple Minecraft servers. Supermicro 16 disks in raid 10 running multiple VM for various functions. All on a 6kva ups (overkill I know)
Luckily I have a large solar array.
My R710 is begging to be replaced.
0.12kWh / h normally (120W). I’m also running 6 HDDs in raid10 so the spin down time is not optimal.
That’s energy, not power. If that’s the energy consumption per hour, then that’s 120W, which is high but not outrageous with a full size computer with 6 disks.
Correct. I assumed a normalized kWh rating would be better than any instantaneous measurement I had on hand.
Mine is around 10W average.
It runs:
- Websites
- my blog
- Jellyfin
- Home assistant
- Nextcloud
And a few other things.
