Mine is roughly 300 watts, much of which is from using an old computer as a NAS separate from my server server.

However, I put the whole thing in the basement next to my heat pump water heater which sucks the heat out of the air and puts it into my water, so I am ameliorating the expense by at least recapturing some of the *waste heat.

370W average.

3 x Lenovo x3650 M5 (Proxmox Nodes)

• 1 x Xeon E5-2697A v4
• 128GB DDR4 ECC
• 2 x 960GB sATA SSD
• 3 x 900GB SAS3 10K RPM HDD
• 1 x nVidia Quadro M2000

TP Link TL-SG3428X switch

Raspberry Pi 3B+ (physical Pi-hole server)

Generic Mini PC Intel N3150 (OpenVPN client)

Dell Optiplex (OPNSense firewall)

• Intel i5 4590
• 8GB

AMD Ryzen 5600G

B550 Aorus Master

2x16 Ripjaw V 3200mhz

1x 14 TB Toshiba N300 for media

1x 6TB Seagate Ironwolf for backup important data

1x 500GB Samsung evo 970 as systemdrive

1x 500GB Crucial P1 as cache and download

1x 2TB Crucial P3 for docker, apps, databases, incus

Bequiet 400W

Nvidia GTX 1660 Super

Idle power 53w, totally worth it ☺️ The extra graphic card is for Immich and Ollama / overall transcoding.

~600W. 2 machines: Dell 730 8 disks running multiple Minecraft servers. Supermicro 16 disks in raid 10 running multiple VM for various functions. All on a 6kva ups (overkill I know)

Luckily I have a large solar array.

Good timing for this thread. I just finished consolidating 2 computers worth of fun into 1 newer computer that can do it all. I sold my wife on the idea with electricity as the reasoning.

In the end, it uses 30 watts less, which is not as much as I had hoped. That's about $5 a month.

180 watts with an i5-13400, 9 spinning disks, 1 M.2 SSD, no extra GPU, 24 port switch (powers 3 AP's), modem, Mikrotik router, and a large UPS. I wonder if the UPS uses any power as a trickle charge for the batteries.

Ok, so most of you also use normal PC processors for your setups. So my power usage is not that high in comparison.

But still, a RaspberryPI would use much less and would still be performant enough.

Mine is around 10W average.

It runs:

• Websites
• my blog
• Jellyfin
• Home assistant
• Nextcloud

And a few other things.

50 watts is maybe halfof one of my 10 gig switches...

Probably about a kilowatt.

~53 W

• Server:

  • AMD Ryzen 5 5600G
  • 4x16 GB DDR4 3200 Mhz
  • 256 GB NVMe as boot-disk
  • 2x256 GB Samsung SSDs for VMs
  • 2x2 TB WD Red Plus HDDs

• Mini PC: Beelink S12 N95

  • 16 GB DDR4
  • 256 GB NVMe

• 8 port unmanaged TP Link switch

I would like to expand my storage, however I don't have any available SATA ports and I believe adding an HBA would increase the idle draw about 8 W. I might just upgrade the SSDs and split the storage between the HDDs and SSDs.

About 500W. 1 self build server 1 Dell R510 and one dell R710. This also includes a bit of network gear like a 48 port switch.

My current setup uses ~180W, which is a lot, but WAY better than my previous one, which was ~600W. Power is cheap where I live, so I'm not too worried about it.

180W homelab:

• N6005 fanless mini PC running pfsense
• mikrotik CRS310-8G+2S+IN switch
• TP-Link AP225 access point
• Server running proxmox w/ AMD 5900X, RTX 3080, 128GB ECC RAM, LSI-9208i w/2x10TB drives, and dual SFP+ NIC

600W homelab:

• Aruba 24-port PoE gigabit switch w/ 4xSFP+ ports
• Dell R720xd fully kitted out w/ 12x 6TB drives, 2x 512GB SSD, 2x 32GB SD cards, 100-something GB RAM, 2x whatever the best CPU was for that unit
• Dell R710 w/ 6x 6TB drives, 1x 256GB SSD, 100-something GB RAM, 2x whatever the best CPU was for that unit.
• TP-Link AP225 access point

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6w or so in idle, 50w under load with HDDs and RPi combined

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I use an Intel SBC with 10W TDP CPU in it. With a HDD and after PSU inefficiency, it draws about 10-20W depending on the load.

Depends where you draw the line of the home lab. I'm drawing 160W at the moment, but that includes a dedicated CCTV PC (running Proxmox in a cluster) and POE switch. The CCTV I don't consider part of the home lab really, the alternative would be an off the shelf box and no one would consider that.

The 160W also includes a 24 port switch (I'm only using 8) and the FTTP power, plus the rake from the UPS. So probably total the actual homelab server would be about 80-100, I guess. But even then it runs my router using opnsense, so I don't have a separate router box to power. It also serves as my "cloud" storage, so I'm not saving watts, but I'm saving the cost there.

I could get the power down quite a bit by changing the 6 HDD for 2 mirrored HDD, but the cost of large enough disks means it'd be years before it paid for itself, so I'm sticking with 6 small disks for now.

I've thought about trimming things down and going lower powered, but it all comes back to storage and needing the large storage online all the time.

Plus I consider a 100W a big saving when before I ran a dual Xeon Dell R710 which used around 225W under the same workload.

~25W which consists of:

• Mini PC
  • Lenovo Thinkcentre M700 Tiny
  • i5-6500T
  • 8GB DDR4
  • 500GB SSD
• External USB 3.5" enclosure
  • 2 x 2 TB HDD
• Network switch
  • 4 Ports Gigabit

I've been thinking about upgrading because the CPU isn't that fast, the RAM ain't that much and I want to add a few more HDD's. I've seen a pretty interesting Lenovo P520 with 64GB RAM a CPU that's 3x times as fast and room for 6 HDD's for €350, but the power consumption I can see online (80W) isn't that appealing with European electricity prices.

~120W with an old server motherboard and 6 spinning drives (42TB of storage overall).

Currently running Nextcloud, Home Assistant, Gitea, Matrix, Jellyfin, Lemmy, Mastodon, Vaultwarden, and a bunch of other smaller stuff alongside storing a few months worth of surveillance footage, so ~$12/month in power certainly ain't a bad deal versus paying for hosted versions of even a fraction of those services.

Don’t have anything spectacular performance wise but my late 2012 i7 Mac Mini Server is reporting ~14w (with my services running and downloads happening) and I saw bursts up to 30w. Not too bad for 12yo Mac running Homebridge, 2 Navidrome instances, Jellyfin, nginx, Transmission, and SMB (looking into Nextcloud to replace that).

120w continuous. Working on bringing it down, because that's $1/day.

I'd rather spend that money on new hardware every year.

35W

DIY PC with 2 SSD and 1 HDD (it used to be 22W with 3 SSDs and no HDD)

Hosting arr stack, nextcloud, immich and many more (~40 services in total)

No idea!

Going from publicly-available info though:

Rpi4B - 6.4W max (more like 5 in real world usage)

Cpu case fan - 1.4W

2x SSD - ~6W each

13.8 to ~18 depending on what the SSDs are pulling i guess. I use it as an *arr seedbox and plex server (up to 1080p h264 works flawlessly!) as well as nextcloud

Average load for me is about 750W. I run my desktop from one of the UPS units in my rack, so when that's on it sits around 1.1kW.

The 750W load is across 4 rack servers(1 is the NAS with 12 disks) and 3 switches.

0.12kWh / h normally (120W). I'm also running 6 HDDs in raid10 so the spin down time is not optimal.

About 150w total, trying to bring it down since electricity here is pretty expensive.

4 machines: two 4th gen i5, one 6th gen Nuc (Have two more but not set them up yet), and one HP thin client. Also two UPSes, and 3 cameras (previously four, but one was accidentally damaged).

Hosting Home Assistant, Zabbix, Palworld, SMB, Transmission, Plex and a bunch of other misc stuff.

Kind of contemplating moving everything to a 10th gen Nuc, but thinking a Ryzen based mini pc might be a better option