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How Many Jigowatts Do You Use? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by Kltpzyxmm@alien.top to c/homelab@selfhosted.forum

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So ive never really paid attention to the power I consume running various servers over the years but now that ive cleaned up and consolidated im trying to gauge my power draw compared to others.

I run a Proxmox host with 13 HDDs, 6 NVMe drives and 2 U2 NVME drives, a Quattro P2200, RTX A2000, RTX 4070, Epyc CPU, HBA for HDDs, NVMe Card 4x4.

A Synology 2422 with 4SSD, 2 HDDs

A Synology expansion with 8 HDDs

I run about 500 watts off the wall for all this stuff and I think this is the lower end as I wasn't using the GPUs. That includes a couple switches as well. Very silent runs very cool.

What do other people consume?

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[–] _mrplow@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

45-50W during the day at home, 20-25W during the night as I shut down my server. Swapped the PSU in that server which reduced the load by 10W, the previous one apparently was way oversized.

200-300W at my parent's basement permanently where I keep my storage servers with 36 HDDs in total. They have PV on the roof, a large battery in the basement and don't want to put excess power back into the grid so I was allowed to move my large servers there.