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[–] 2039482341@alien.top 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

129kWh/month (approx $10.2)

...100% solar powered...

[–] slartibartfast2320@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Next step: a home battery for night usage... (or can you compensate night usage with solar too? In that case: lucky you! (Where I live this is now impossible, so i bought a battery))

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[–] cruzaderNO@alien.top 2 points 1 year ago

atm im not running much since not much time to lab, just the base stack.

about 35€/mo for 650w average consumption.

[–] homelabgobrrr@alien.top 2 points 1 year ago

Currently drawing that daily… sometimes a lot more…

[–] RayneYoruka@alien.top 2 points 1 year ago

Idk I have cheap electricity, 7c day 6 night so I just have it on its own

[–] pongpaktecha@alien.top 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My entire server rack uses about 150wh so 24/7 it calculates out to about 11.50 USD

[–] Xevailo@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Similar wattage, but that calculates to about 44€ per month cries in german electricity costs

[–] p_235615@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

My lab is around 65-70W, thats Router + Switch + Server (Ryzen 3600 + 3x 3.5"HDD)

[–] firedrakes@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

oddly 48 port 1gb switch was eating more power then thread ripper builds(2 of them)

i went to a fanless netgear 24 port switch for 25 bucks.

was 30 extra on top of Normal bill.

this will cut bill down by 20 alone.

[–] do-wr-mem@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Old PoE switch? I have some 3750s that don't see regular action because they're loud, hot, and powerhungry

[–] Tylerfresh@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I have one server I built around a 13100f cpu. 2 3.5” hdds, 2 2.5” ssds and an nvme for boot. ~35w at normal use which runs me ~7c/day ~$24/year (upstate NY USA)

[–] kopachke@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

17 watts. HP 800 g1

[–] referefref@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Ops monthly cost is my daily cost.

[–] TheIlluminate1992@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Heh. ~275W at $0.11/kWh. I'm at about $24/month. But that's network and server combined. Server only uses about 125W.

[–] tabortsenare@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

55w idle ~105w high load.

[–] TorrentplsZOMG@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

mine is ~50W and less than $3 USD a month!

Cries in German 0.44 USD per kWh ...

Paying 27,23 USD for my 85W NAS (which I need to bring down badly ...) per month. Waiting for a new bill on solar power on your balcony early 2024. Lookin into buying 800W panels and a battery. Should help bring down the operational cost tremendeously.

[–] ConfusionSecure487@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I moved to the 2 NAS approach. I use a thincentre m910q as live system for frequent use and 1TB of SSD storage and my old NAS as Cold storage with 40TB, which is not that frequently used and only turned on to backup active data and retrieving data which I need again

[–] pppjurac@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bittte... Verbund Österreich :(

[–] TorrentplsZOMG@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Zeit for another Anschluß?

[–] pppjurac@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Genau!

Kleine PV ab Februar 24!

[–] TorrentplsZOMG@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Und los! xD

[–] Complete_Potato9941@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have 0.37 euros per kWh but I am crazy enough to be using 210watts.

[–] TorrentplsZOMG@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Was sollen sonst nur die Nachbarn denken ;)

[–] TryHardEggplant@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I know the feeling. 0.44€ in Ireland as well. I use about 500W continuously which is probably around €150/month (we pay lower rates at night for 7 hours). This is a far cry from two years ago when I was running 800-900W at 0.17€/kWh

[–] ice-h2o@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I pay 12€ a month for ~60W :(

[–] GrabbenD@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

u/Positive-Gazelle2603 Specs?

https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/s/SQY5S8HM2b

I downsized and killed Host2. Now only host1 is an always on server.

[–] BigSmols@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Kindof painful to see you paying 6 cents where I pay 39😓

[–] SpinCharm@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (6 children)
[–] montagic@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As a new homelaber, I am in awe of this dashboard

[–] Positive-Gazelle2603@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow u/SpinCharm that's a beautiful dashboard right there!

[–] 103hz@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Know what dashboard that is?

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[–] squeekymouse89@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some specs to go alongside this would help with perspective. I'm running at 65W and have 2x 6TB spinning drives in mirror. 2 ssds for OS and a crap celeron

Mine is an Athlon 3000G with 3 drives 4TB mix of M.2 and sata SSD. No spining rust. All in ZFS mirrors. I use monitoring for telegram notifications and email to know when some drive wears out and I need a replacement.

[–] audioeptesicus@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

2100 kWh/month, with the UPS reading about a 2900 W draw. Cost is $0.09/kWh. Located in Middle Tennessee.

[–] kY2iB3yH0mN8wI2h@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

my apartment recently had some renovations done and the worker today asked my if my electric bill was high.. yea .. kind of.. I replied.

. "well your apartment was much warmer compared to all your neighbours..." go figure.

[–] Footz355@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Use a single wyze 5070 for my home server just because power usage was key, and it seems this thin client had best power use to performance to cost ratio. It uses I think around 16W on avarage.

[–] veerstaalbg@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's nice! How could you do that,plz share your set up! thanks!

[–] Positive-Gazelle2603@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/s/SQY5S8HM2b I downsized it to only host1 moved all there, now Host2 is a gaming PC and main utility pc. I shutdown or suspend it everyday. Host1 is the only alwayson server now.

Btw, the grafana + prometheus setup is very cool you can even get alerts rp ur email and phone. I'd probably do a tutorial for how to do it since grafana dpcumentation is a bit confusing at times.

[–] j-mar@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you collect the usage data? Is there hardware involved?

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[–] JoaGamo@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

500w idle, 900w under load, 360kW/month

Costs around 13$ USD

[–] Gishan@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

60W 24/7 which costs about € 11,- per month

Due to high energy prices I'm barely using the server I built back in 21 (would draw an additional 100-120W). And my NAS only runs during backup. The 60W are basic networking stuff (router, switch, ...) and 3 Raspberry Pi 4B which run all of my stuff now.

[–] vtKSF@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

400-500W ~100$ per month.

I make nothing, I give people shit. Yay.

[–] f0rc3u2@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

About 10W, as I was looking for a power efficient CPU when I bought the server. So 7kWh a month, a little bit over 2€/month.

I have been using a j5005 with 16GB Ram, 40TB attached storage (the harddrives are spun down when not in use) for the last five years and so far I never had the impression that I need to upgrade.

The Gemini lake series supports only 8GB Ram officially, but apparently up to 32GB are possible.

[–] user3872465@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

86W so about 20Euro/Month

[–] 5c044@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Mine is ~26w, two arm based SBC jetson nano and an rk3399 NanoPC T4, three laptop usb hdd, a 1gig switch and one of my mesh routers all connected to one smartplug. Running Home Assistant, Frigate, PhotoPrism, DoubleTake/Deepstack, Nginx reverse proxy.

Cost £0.27/Kwh 2470.026*0.27=£1.33 per week

[–] cdnsniper827@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

About 2200kWh/year for $165 CAD ($122 USD).

  • R730XD with 12 hard drives and 2 SAS SSDs running unRAID
  • 3 node Proxmox cluster built with HP prodesks (i3-7100t, i5-7500t and i5-8500)
  • pfSense firewall running on a minipc with an N5105
  • Unifi US8-60W powering 3 APs and an ip camera
[–] __420_@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Running 5 dell r730XD with a ton of networking gear and ip cameras, I'm pulling about 5000 watts or 120kwh a day. Roughly $600 a month in power. YIIIPPEEEEEE

[–] eplejuz@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

What software is this? Thanks!

[–] toolschism@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I don't want to play this game...

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