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?
80W for me in R730 running various VM and most of the time are just idle.
50 Watts
~550w Nexus 9k 48p 10g 6p 40g 3x dell r630, 2x 10c e5 2640 v4, 384gb ram, 1x 960gb nvme ssd and 5x 1.92tb sata SSDs
Though it may change soon… not for the better
850 watts is my normal server rack load, however, with cameras and other switches I’m at 1100 watts 24/7 currently.
Add another 600 watts if I turn everything on in the server rack.
around 350W at the moment, but I’m in the middle of a data migration.
i7-8700 whitebox VM host
2x HP N54L with 4x 8TB SAS drives, one of them also has 2x 500GB SSD and 2x 500GB HDD
TPlink 24 port switch
a couple of UPSes
Huawei LTE router
probably some other stuff that I’ve forgotten
Will likely be adding a Dell Optiplex mini PC soon
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.
Idle ~1.2kw underload reasonably 2.5 to 3kw? Haven’t really stress tested everything to see where I sit at 25% intervals yet. Still rebuilding my rack, office, and support pcs right now. Will have a better idea of exact figures later this week. Averaging 85kwh/day for the house. Everything either has extremely specific low power tasks such as home assistant or truenas or handles vm, production environments, game servers, or gaming for the most part.
2x7551, 128gb, 10 sas, 1 ssd, 1 nvme 2x2699v4, 512gb, 12 sas 7950x, 64gb, 3090ti, 4 nvme, 2 ssd 13900k, 64gb, 1070, 1 nvme 9900k, 32gb, 1 nvme, 6 hdd X6 1100, 8gb, 1 ssd 2600k, 16gb, 1 ssd, 6 hdd Elitedesk g3, 16gb, 1 nvme, 1 ssd, 4 hdd external Mac Studio
Networking Arista dcs-7250qx-64 40gbe Dell x1052 Asus router and mesh
Disk shelves, both filled with various flavors and sized drives Netapp ds2246 IBM ds3524
My entire rack is currently idle’ing at around 180 watts. That includes a 10 drive Unraid server with Ryzen 7 3700X. Plus I have a Dell mini-PC, HP EliteDesk G3, A older Apple Mac-Mini running Ubuntu server and a Lenovo m720q (OPNSense).
Of course I’ve never looked at how much the network stuff is using such as 2 switches, 4 x Access points, 2 x Raspberry Pi 3s (DNS/Pihole) and ISP provided fiber gateway box.
eh, around 500w average.
Got a couple SFFs. Got a couple Micros.
Got an 2730xd loaded with over 128T of storage, tons of NVMe and 256g of ram.
Got 6 switches total. 10G ran everywhere too. Lots of POE stuff.
Soooo, 750w+ at the wall isn’t normal? 😬
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 unitsI just dont want to know.