Soooo, 750w+ at the wall isn't normal? 😬
this post was submitted on 14 Nov 2023
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Our house has got multiple fridge freezers, an induction hob, several sets of Tvs.& gaming consoles, a semi-dedicated home theatre and office, as well as a 3kw hot tub - the power bill for my homelab is a rounding error amongst all that.
10W for Proxmox host, 15W for small Synology, and that's about it. I don't know what the router and switch draw, probably nothing. It runs Nextcloud, Home Assistant, Immich, Arr suite, Tailscale, Adguard Home, Jellyfin and my website absolutely fine. I'd absolutely hate to consume more and I love my Apple Silicon Macs.
I just power everything off except a couple of Raspberry PIs when I'm not using it. I did the math and where I live, it's about $1/watt/year for loads that are on 24/7. It's just not worth $400/year to power something that usually idle.
200w, I think it could be less if I enable c-states (don't know why I turned them off)
3x optiplex 3070s
4 HDDs
4 APs, 4 PoE cams, 10g switch
450W. The bulk of that is from having 45x HDD's running. The only way to reduce it is if I bought higher capacity HDD's, which will be expensive.
I hope y'all know that the correct way to write this is "gigawatt."
We should be saying [jigabyte] not "gigabyte".
Look up the dictionary pronunciation of the prefix "giga-"
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I only use JuggaloWatts. Whoop Whoop!
Pre-SSD days I wondered the same thing so I purchase a power/watt meter to check my 6 disk RedHat LVM RAID-5 arrays...it was eye opening.
Electrical consumption alone, not even factoring in my stress "is it working", man-hours, backups, user/family training, UPS units, or drive/cassis hardware costs it was clearly cheaper to outsource storage.
I'd love to know, but it's best I dont.
3 HP DL380s, 4 drives each
1 HP DL380, 15 drives
1 Chenbro 1U storage server, 12 drives
1 supermicro 1U storage server, 12 drives
1 HP DL360, 4 drives I think
2 netgear business poe switches
2 fortigates
2 microtik 8 port 10G switches
2 smart UPS 1500 units
I just dont want to know.