Selfhosters what is the power draw of your entire setup? And have you done anything special to manage it you’d like to share?
Including all network equipment I use around 110kWh of good ol’ 120V 60Hz USA juice per month. Averaging about 215 watts of power draw for my systems. Nothing amazing, but I like to think that it’s a conservative setup for everything I accomplish with it. I’m paying around $25 a month for my setup. None of that includes my work PC or personal PC, just hosting infrastructure.
Other than trying to make sure all power states are available on my server I haven’t done a lot of power conservation.
I’m curious what you all have.
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~500W continuous, ~625W peak. To reduce this further I’d really need to start consolidating hardware. I do have one system that could be replaced with something more modern and would probably drop 20-30W. And my fileserver is a bit overkill as well so there could be improvements there.
Just checked my UPS. It sits at 105W for:
- HP Mini PC
- Synology 4 Bay NAS
- DrayTek Router
- Mikrotik 16 Port Switch
- PoE Switch
- 3 AP’s
- 1 Raspberry Pi 3B
- 2 NanoKVM
Like 3-12w but I’m only running a little mostly jellyfin server
Way too damn much, around 700w between 4 rack servers and associated gear
Wow, that’s quite a bit.
If I recall right off hand it’s 92 cores, 64+8+8+12 between them. Been looking to merge a couple of the smaller ones into the others but it’s not a small task.
NAS sits at 24w idle. Security cams are drawing 19w of poe power, but I suspect there is a bit more being used in total. I have another NUC using probably around 24w max.
I’ll slap some power meters on the switches and main nuc and try get some more accurate numbers.
About 113 kWh (155w) for me. I have 2 Intel NUC type devices, with two drive enclosures. Plus my networking equipment which include POE cameras.
65W for
- two Lenovo tiny proxmox nodes, each with nvme + SATA SSD + second NIC
- two switches (5/8 port)
- PCengine APU running OpnSense
- Raspi4 with Zigbee antenna
- Mini PC + JBOD (4 SSD in total)
- Small OpenDTU device
Keeping power consumption low was my design goal, but I eventually added the secondary NICs and additional switch for Proxmox replication and management traffic.
Cool setup, i used to have an 8th gen tiny lenovo pc. Pretty powerful for its size.
Currently, 2 servers and 2 3d printers, I’m running just over 200w at idle. Depending on what my printers and servers are doing at any given moment, it could go up to 2000w, total, but I haven’t seen that high a power draw since I stopped contributing to Boinc projects about a year ago. I remember finding it mildly amusing that my graphics cards had a higher power draw then my printers.
My nas takes about 40 Wh. And my network machine (proxmox + openwrt) about 20 Wh. When I upgraded my nas a year ago it was actually drawing twice as much, I have since then switched to more efficient processor (amd from normal to E) and I took out graphic card that I didn’t use. I could have in theory merge those two, but I wanted to separate networking from nas+apps. I don’t know how much my smart devices take but I don’t have many so it can be up to 50 Wh total maybe. But that is more smart home than self hosting 😀
Is this daily, monthly? Cause otherwise you’d be drawing 144kw from just a nas which is… beyond silly
I can trip the measly 15 amp breaker by drawing 1.5kW on two servers + turning on an amplifier that is somehow on the same circuit despite being in a different room quite far from where my servers are lol.
On average though I only draw like 350W. The huge spike only happens if I run a miner/llm on both of my servers or the during the startup spike.
The 1kW chunk comes from some RTX Quadro 6000s which each eat 250W each when maxxed out.
EDIT: Want to mention that most machines report their power draw (from mobo) without IPMI, so you can use your favorite stats collector use it to form a rough estimate of kWh total in case you don’t have a proper meter that records usage.
I’m in the same boat and i rent the place. Both bedrooms are on the same breaker and I’m upgrading my GPU (215W to 415W) and might get a Mi50 as a second card in my desktop for local LLMs.
At full power on both machines i’m already close to tripping the breaker. Witj these new card(s) i don’t think it’ll fly. My server uses around 700W at max, 450W idle if it’s nice and cool in the spare room. Mostly due to loooots of spinning rust. I’m a datahoarder and have a full 18 disk 3.5" JBOD, and 24/25 drives in my 2.5" JBOD.
I’ll figure something out I guess…
When nothing (no a/c, washer, work PCs off, etc) is running my house power draw is about 500-800w. So my battery keeps things going until the next day.
5 w for the machine. I think the router is 20w.
My server is a OnePlus5T running Post marketOS. It runs AdGuardHime, a Static Website, nginx, and Anubis.
Too much.
38watts and spikes to 65watts from my Synology. My gaming laptop turn proxmox can spike to 350watts but normally sits at 50-75watts.
Kinda pointless to conpare power draw without saying what hw you’re running. There’s a big difference between a system with 1 ssd and another one with 12 hdds.
Oh true. It’s a 8 bay NAS with 5 spinning drives. And 2 nvmes The gaming PC is an i7 12th gen with 63GB ram and a 3070ti.
On average it’s about 4kwh per day. I’m effectively off grid most of the time so the cost of electricity is irrelevant unless I go way overboard during a week of rain or something and I have to draw from the grid.
I am about to move from an 18ru rack to 45… So… Might be some expansion in the future.
Wow, off grid and you pull that much.
Impressive.
