Kinda curious what people’s power draw is. Mine sits at about 50-60W at idle.
I’m kinda new to self hosting but I have immich and jellyfin severs. And then a little LLM role-playing game I made running locally on an older gaming laptop. It spikes up to like 170W for like 30 secords when playing when the “Dungeon Master” responds.
Idk just like to hear what other people got going on! I’ll probably still tinker to get my power draw down even more if possible
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Mine idles at 35w. It’s running OpenMediaVault on a Ryzen 5 3400g w/ 16GB ram, 3 HDDs, 1 SSD, 1 NVME.
It doesn’t really get above 45w even with a few torrents actively seeding. Aside from qBittorrent all my other containers are pretty much idle unless I access the services (Kavita, Flatnotes, FreshRSS, RecipeSage).
How do you like OMV? I’m about to redo my media storage to consolidate some services into a single host and it looks promising, but the amount of padding they felt they needed for their “Features” list gave me… pause.
It’s from their website, but the main index page, not the
/featurespage. It’s only the first half of the list on the index, but most of the items that I consider reaches (like listing “debian-based” and “debian package management” as separate top-line items) were in the first half.
It’s the first and only server OS I’ve used and I have no complaints.
Bear in mind I’m just using it for the containers I listed above plus media storage and backups. None of my services are accessible outside my network so I haven’t had to deal with any networking stuff at all.
I haven’t measured, and I don’t wanna know. I have a full sized 42u rack almost full of goodies.
Raspberry Pi Zero 2. It maxes out at 15W, and runs at 0.5W idle.
If it can’t run on a Zero, I don’t want it.Built my own server to be completely silent since it lives in my living room. Based on an Intel i3-12100 with some NVMe and 5x SATA SSD’s, and running tons of containers. Does about 18W most of the time and it could have been lower with a different motherboard.
All the UniFi stuff (gateway, switches, APs) uses just under 50W though, so there’s little sense in spending more money on the server to shave off a few watts.
Dell T320 idles out at 54–99W, but typical use would be in the 101–158W range. In my locale, one Dell T320 will cost about $35 USD per month to run. I shut them down before retiring for the evening as I couldn’t justify running them while I’m sawing logs. I’m the only user and I have no late nite/early morning Linux ISOs downloads scheduled.
.63W: N100 server with 2 HDD & 2 SSD. Cable modem. 5-port POE switch. WAP. Ooma VOIP device.
The POE & WAP are like 10W between them, but I had to add them to get strong enough wifi to one particular client. Authentik somehow consumes 3W. Immich also has a high idle load, so I leave it down most of the time.
With no HDD access, around 90w. If some random service wakes up HDDs, around 100-120w.
The power measurment includes the following devices:
- 1x Some random ThinkCentre for HomeAssistant
- 1x Unifi Dream Machine
- 6x HDDs connected to a Mac Mini M4
- 1x JetKVM
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My UnRaid server with 50 docker containers of various uses and a 1060ti all sitting in an old gaming rig is pretty steady at 80W
10-15W under load, idle probably around 5W, Jetson Nano with a few USB-to-SATA HDDs.
40w
It’s an old microATX build with 3 HDDs, 1 SSD, 1 M.2 and a Quadro P400 so I think 40w average is pretty good. It’s on 24/7 with no spin down.
About 180w. I’ve tried maximizing power efficiency by turning on eee, disabling unused ports and Poe, limiting services/containers to essentials, underclocking a raspberry pi, turning off equipment when not in use if it supports WoL reliably or has ipmi.
I once measured “it”: an extremely old laptop. Since it wasn’t for gaming it didn’t really matter what I threw at it, it was … hmm, maybe 30W. But as soon as the screen went on that doubled.
Mine sits at about 50-60W
same but it doesn’t change with load, whether it’s idle or maxed out, it’s in that watt range
At idle, when the 5 HDDs are spun down, it’s around 25W. When everything’s up and running and under load it’s around 50W.
