Mine runs at 30watts at idle.
That powers 4 switches, 1AP, and my proxmox system (framework laptop motherboard) which runs my router and my services.
What is everyone else’s usage and what does it power?
Dude, chill. This isn’t how that works. While a server that consumes as much as a few mordern lightbulbs will almost always be something like energy efficient if it does any kind of real work… This simply isn’t the case when we’re talking about half a kilowatt. And you don’t say my pc has X components and consumes Y amount of power, therefore it’s efficient. You measure that against the job it’s doing.
It’s like with a big truck and fuel efficency. It would be very inefficient to buy a big truck only to drive your daughter to school. But the same big truck might be very efficient at hauling large quantities of stuff through the country. The same applies to your setup. Good for you, for owning a CPU, memory and so on. I too have a few generations old Xeon, ECC ram and hard disks. This doesn’t tell me anything about efficiency without knowing what you DO with all of that energy. Hence my (implied) question…
But you’re right. I wasn’t paying close attention to the diagram. It is 220W - 320W for their rack/stuff and 450W when they also start up their pc.
This is self-hosting, it is inherently inefficient.
Consolidating servers, storage, power, cooling, networking is always more efficient.
From your example: one full bus is more efficient than any configuration of even the most efficient cars.
I do this for a bunch of reasons, including being a hobby. Hobbies aren’t meant to be efficient; first and foremost they are meant to be fun 😊
Dude, chill. This isn’t how that works.
I’m pretty chill. I’m not sure attacking someone’s efficiency based on their power consumption for an unspecified rack/workload is very chill…
