I wonder if my system is good or bad. My server needs 0.1kWh.

  • Joelk111@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    7 days ago

    Mate, kWh is a measure of electricity volume, like gallons is to liquid. Also, 100 watt hours would be a much more sensical way to say the same thing. What you’ve said in the title is like saying your server uses 1 gallon of water. It’s meaningless without a unit of time. Watts is a measure of current flow (pun intended), similar to a measurement like gallons per minute.

    For example, if your server uses 100 watts for an hour it has used 100 watt hours of electricity. If your server uses 100 watts for 100 hours it has used 10000 watts of electricity, aka 10kwh.

    My NAS uses about 60 watts at idle, and near 100w when it’s working on something. I use an old laptop for a plex server, it probably uses like 50 watts at idle and like 150 or 200 when streaming a 4k movie, I haven’t checked tbh. I did just acquire a BEEFY network switch that’s going to use 120 watts 24/7 though, so that’ll hurt the pocket book for sure. Soon all of my servers should be in the same place, with that network switch, so I’ll know exactly how much power it’s using.

  • Karna@lemmy.mlEnglish
    11·
    6 days ago

    I came here to tell my tiny Raspberry pi 4 consumes ~10 watt, But then after noticing the home server setup of some people and the associated power consumption, I feel like a child in a crowd of adults 😀

    • mipadaitu@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      6 days ago

      I’m using an old laptop with the lid closed. Uses 10w.

      All in, including my router, switches, modem, laptop, and NAS, I’m using 50watts +/- 5.

      It does everything I need, and I feel like that’s pretty efficient.

    • bitwaba@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      6 days ago

      I have an old desktop downclocked that pulls ~100W that I’m using as a file server, but I’m working on moving most of my services over to an Intel NUC that pulls ~15W. Nothing wrong with being power efficient.

    • trolololol@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      Quite the opposite. Look at what they need to get a fraction of what you do.

      Or use the old quote, “they’re compensating for small pp”

  • Dremor@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    6 days ago

    Between 50W (idle) and 140W (max load). Most of the time it is about 60W.

    So about 1.5kWh per day, or 45kWh per month. I pay 0,22€ per kWh (France, 100% renewable energy) so about 9-10€ per month.

    • eleitl@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      Are you including nuclear power in renewable or is that a particular provider who claims net 100% renewable?

      • Dremor@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        6 days ago

        Net 100% renewable, no nuclear. I can even choose where it comes from (in my case, a wind farm in northwest France). Of course, not all of my electricity come from there at all time, but I have the guaranty that renewable energy bounds equivalent to my consumption will be bought from there, so it is basically the same.

        • eleitl@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          6 days ago

          Thanks. I buy Vattenfall but make net 2/3rds of my own power via rooftop solar.

  • Mio@feddit.nuEnglish
    3·
    6 days ago

    45 to 55 watt.

    But I make use of it for backup and firewall. No cloud shit.

  • Meldrik@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    6·
    7 days ago

    For the whole month of November. 60kWh. This is for all my servers and network equipment. On average, it draws around 90 watt.

      • Dremor@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        6 days ago

        Or smart sockets. I got multiple of them (ZigBee ones), they are precise enough for most uses.

    • computergeek125@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      6 days ago

      If you have a server with out-of-band/lights-out management such as iDRAC (Dell), iLO (HPe), IPMI (generic, Supermicro, and others) or equivalent, those can measure the server’s power draw at both PSUs and total.

  • tired_n_bored@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    6 days ago

    With everything on, 100W but I don’t have my NAS on all the time and in that case I pull only 13W since my server is a laptop

  • Cole@midwest.socialEnglish
    2·
    6 days ago

    My server uses about 6-7 kWh a day, but its a dual CPU Xeon running quite a few dockers. Probably the thing that keeps it busiest is being a file server for our family and a Plex server for my extended family (So a lot of the CPU usage is likely transcodes).

  • 31337@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    7 days ago

    The PC I’m using as a little NAS usually draws around 75 watt. My jellyfin and general home server draws about 50 watt while idle but can jump up to 150 watt. Most of the components are very old. I know I could get the power usage down significantly by using newer components, but not sure if the electricity use outweighs the cost of sending them to the landfill and creating demand for more newer components to be manufactured.

  • thumdinger@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    6 days ago

    Pulling around 200W on average.

    • 100W for the server. Xeon E3-1231v3 with 8 spinning disks + HBA, couple of sata SSD’s
    • ~80W for the unifi PoE 48 Pro switch. Most of this is PoE power for half a dozen cameras, downstream switches and AP’s, and a couple of raspberry pi’s
    • ~20W for protectli vault running Opnsense
    • Total usage measured via Eaton UPS
    • Subsidised during the day with solar power (Enphase)
    • Tracked in home assistant
  • Dumbkid@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    7 days ago

    I use unraid with 5950x and it wouldn’t stop crashing until I disabled c states

    So that plus 18 hdds and 2 ssds it sits at 200watts 24/7

    • Vikthor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      44·
      6 days ago

      Please. Watt is an SI unit of power, equivalent of Joule per second. Watt-hour is a non-SI unit of energy( 1Wh = 3600 J). Learn the difference and use it correctly.

  • MentalEdge@ani.socialEnglish
    66·
    8 days ago

    You might have your units confused.

    0.1kWh over how much time? Per day? Per hour? Per week?

    Watthours refer to total power used to do something, from a starting point to an ending point. It makes no sense to say that a device needs a certain amount of Wh, unless you’re talking about something like charging a battery to full.

    Power being used by a device, (like a computer) is just watts.

    Think of the difference between speed and distance. Watts is how fast power is being used, watt-hours is how much has been used, or will be used.

    If you have a 500 watt PC, for example, it uses 500Wh, per hour. Or 12kWh in a day.

    • fool@programming.devEnglish
      313·
      7 days ago

      I forgive 'em cuz watt hours are a disgusting unit in general

      idea what unit
      speed change in position over time meters per second m/s
      acceleration change in speed over time meters per second, per second m/s/s=m/s²
      force acceleration applied to each of unit of mass kg * m/s²
      work acceleration applied along a distance, which transfers energy kg * m/s² * m = kg * m²/s²
      power work over time kg * m² / s³
      energy expenditure power level during units of time (kg * m² / s³) * s = kg * m²/s²

      Work over time, × time, is just work! kWh are just joules (J) with extra steps! Screw kWh, I will die on this hill!!! Raaah

      • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
        8·
        8 days ago

        Could be worse, could be BTU. And some people still use tons (of heating/cooling).

      • acockworkorange@mander.xyzEnglish
        2·
        7 days ago

        Power over time could be interpreted as power/time. Power x time isn’t power, it’s energy (=== work). But otherwise I’m with you. Joules or gtfo.

    • cholesterol@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      If you have a 500 watt PC, for example, it uses 500Wh, per hour. Or 12kWh in a day.

      A maximum of 500 watts. Fortunately your PC doesn’t actually max out your PSU or your system would crash.