My pi costs probably around 20 a year lol.

I've got a 3 node Proxmox/ceph cluster with 10G, plus a separate Nas. They are all rack mount with dual PSU. Add in the necessary switching, and my average load is about 800w. Throw my desktop (also on 10G) into the mix and it runs 1.1kw.

That's roughly $50-60 extra in electricity costs for me monthly.

Around 100 Watts for

• NAS with 4x3.5" HDD,
• Minisforum HM90 for Proxmox with 2x2.5" HDDs,
• 16 Port TP Link PoE Switch,
• TP Link router
• 2x Raspberry Pi 4b

But everything with gigabit speed. Doesnt need more at home

I'm running my smart home entirely from a single NUC running proxmox with VMs and LXCs for my services. It's pulling ~7W on average

If you're just running home automation, you do not need an Epyc 🤣

Get a low power anything to just run what you need.

You most likely won't utilize these speeds in a home lab, but I understand why you want them. I do too. I settled for 2.5GBit because that was a sweet spot in terms of speed, cost and power draw. In total, I idle at about 60W for following systems:

• Lenovo M90q (i7 10700, 32GB, 3 x 1 TB SSD) running Proxmox, 15W idle
• Custom NAS (Ryzen 2400G, 16GB, 4x12TB HDD)v running Truenas (30W idle)
• Firewall (N5105, 8GB) running OPNsense (8W idle)
• FritzBox 6660 Cable, which functions as a glorified access point, 10W idle

5 node proxmox cluster (each node on 40gbps networking[yes ceph...], ~80TB of SSD storage, 180cores, ~630GB of ram total)
1 slow storage node (~400TB)
2x opnsense servers in HA
2x icx7750s
2x icx7450s

PoE to all the things... and 8gbps internet.

Usually run ~15-17amps. So about 2000 watts. It's my baby datacenter.

Sometime this month I'll be installing 25000kwh solar system on my roof and batteries.

As far as heat goes... It's in the garage with an insulated door, heat pump water heater, and there's a tripplite ac unit in the bottom of the rack. The waste air(from the a/c) exhausts outside through a direct vent in the wall. The garage is downright tolerable to me for extended periods of time. The servers don't complain at all.

Reading about all you guys being under 200w or whatever makes me wonder if it's worth it. Then I realize that the cost to do even a 1/4 of what I do in the cloud is more expensive than buying my solar.

Power costs for the rack is about $100-120 a month. If it wasn't for solar.

Edit: 75 LXC containers, 22VMs.

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125W (Less than $15/month) or so for

• Ryzen 9 3900X
• 64GB RAM
• 2x4TB NVMe (ZFS Mirror)
• 5x14TB HDD (ZFS RAID-Z2)
• 2.5GBe Network Card
• 5-port 2.5GBe Network Switch
• 5-port 1GBe POE Network Switch w/ one Reolink Camera attached

I generally leave powerManagement.cpuFreqGovernor = "powersave" in my Nix config as well, which saves about 40W ($4/mo or so) for my typical load as best as I can tell, and I disable it if I'm doing bulk data processing on a time crunch.

5950x in an matx board with 15 x 3.5in drives 1 x sata sad 1 x optane u.2 drive (pulls like 10watts) 1 x Nvidia A2000 1 x Lsi 9305 16i 1 x 2.5gbe intel nic 3 x 140 mm fans at full tilt

Runs at like 120 watts at idle, like 220 watts with a good amount of work and peaks at like 320 watts if I make it do a lot of work

My real server (Nextcloud/NAS/several more vm's) uses 28 Watts on average. In addition, there is one Pi 4B running, and I don't even know it's wattage.

I'm planning on replacing the real server with a new one, with lots of cores and approx. 50 Watts then.

The load on my UPS is around 100-140 watts. That includes my server, firewall, switch, starlink and a unifi access point. I would love to get that power consumption down. I only get 4-5 hours of runtime on battery. Also, the room it's in is small and it gets really hot in the summer time.

I have an ITX Ryzen 2700X with an arc A380. 3 HDDs and 1 SSD boot drive.

Before some kernel improvements for the A380, my idle wattage was 60W. Without the A380 it was around 35W idle. I am hoping that it is around 45W now because of fixing the high idle wattage of the GPU but I have to measure again.

Performance is great though. Perfect Jellyfin streaming, home automation, document and media management, file sync, recipe management, etc...

People tend to over-spec their servers, in my opinion. Unless you are dealing with more than a few dozen clients or so on one server (or having a many-user dedicated streaming server), you really don't need much.

15w Raspberry pi 4 + HDDs

I recently removed my 25Gbps PCIe dual port cards from my 2 servers because they were using 20W more. My entire rack including 2 UniFi PoE connections uses 90 W now (so 110 W just for having 25 Gpbs).

There is some heat from such cards, but usually it gets transported outside fine. The ones I bought did not come with a fan. I think you cannot operate them without one. The heat sinks get very hot.

• Fujitsu motherboard
• Intel pentium G5600
• 6 HDD (4 x 4 TB 2 x 8 TB) spinned down
• 2 SSD for proxmox
• 6 CT and no VM for now

it runs at 16W mostly idle

I run 3900X with a 40Gbit fiber, packed with HDDs and nvmes. The box fluctuates around 90-110W use.

Mine is about 8W on average.

It's an Odroid H3 that runs Nextcloud, Jellyfin, AudiobookShelf, a bunch of websites and Home Assistant.

It has 2x Sata SSD's connected.

This setup is not high speed at all, so it's not what you asked about. I just answered the headline question. ;)

If any air ventilation fan turns on in the house it uses at least 3x that power, so I don't calculate the price on my servers power draw as it almost not noticable.

Thinkcenter tiny, 4 external HDDs, a DAC, a raspi3b+, was like 25W I think.

Let's see...

My servers (tiny/mini/micros) in total are about... 600W or so. Two NASs, about 15-20W a piece.

I spend a out $150/mo in electricity, but my hot water/HVAC/etc are the big power draw. I'd say about $40-50/mo is what I'm spending on powering the servers in my office.

Definitely puts off some heat, but that's partially because it's all in one rack, and I've got a bunch of other work hardware in there. It's about 2 degrees warmer in my office than the rest of my home, but I also have air cycling all the time since it's a single unit HVAC and I need to keep the air moving to keep it all the right temp in the other rooms anyway (AC will come on more often otherwise, even without my rack).

I have a small setup for some self hosted apps and media.

• Beelink Mini S.
• 2 external 5TB drives.
• A USB fan used as an exhaust because the SSD inside gets a bit warm.

I think total power is about 30W.

The last time I checked, mine runs at about 5-10 watts usually.

• Intel i7-3770
• 16gb DDR3
• 2 1TB SSDs

About 30 watts for a old Lenovo Thinkcentre with a i5-6500T and 8 GB RAM in combination with a DAS and 2x2TB HDD's. I'm currently waiting for parts for my new server I'm building, a small N100 Mini-ITX board with 4x4TB HDD's that hopefully has a similar power consumption.

From the wall I'm pulling 120w

Ryzen 5700G

128GB ram

2tb + 4tb NVMe drive

2 x 20tb HDDs

Unifi Enterprise 24 PoE

Mikrotik RB5009

2 access points

3 cameras

Fiber runs cooler than copper all of my SFP+ are fiber.

I use a Ryzen 5900x, RTX 3080, 2x 10Gbit sfp+ NIC, 128GB ECC RAM, and only 2x 20TB drives at the moment.

For my gateway, I have an Intel N6005 box, I have a managed 2.5/10Gbit switch, and I have a wifi AP.

I have a ton of Proxmox VMs and containers.

All that hovers between 140W to 180W

For my main server only... If HP iLO is to be believed, averaging around 130W.

Running: deluge, homarr, jellyfin, lidarr, navidrome, nextcloud, prowlarr, sonarr, whoogle and a minecraft server (VM) on TrueNAS Scale.

As for everything else (my router, switch and DNS/DHCP server, which is a separate machine, you can add another maybe 50W on top of it...

I run a NUC11 so about 10W. 15-20€ per annum assuming a single tariff at 0.17€ per kwh. It can use up to 30W but only during heavy load which may be like 8 hours a week. But electricity is also cheaper during off peak hours so it averages to about that (we have 5 tariffs).

Load is NAS, media server, homeassistant and a usb zigbee router, *arr stack.

Power usage was my main concern and wanted something eco friendly.

About 120W total for:

• 2 Proxmox hosts with 4 spinning disks between them
• Opnsense firewall
• 24 port GbE switch
• Fiber ONT
• Unifi AP