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how much power does your system need?

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

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Dremor@lemmy.world
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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.

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eleitl@lemm.ee
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Are you including nuclear power in renewable or is that a particular provider who claims net 100% renewable?

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Cole@midwest.social
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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).

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pathief@lemmy.world
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Is there a (Linux) command I can run to check my power consumption?

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modus@lemmy.world
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Get a Kill-a-Watt meter.

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

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bitwaba@lemmy.world
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If you have a laptop/something that runs off a battery, upower

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Karna@lemmy.ml
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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 😀

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bitwaba@lemmy.world
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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.

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isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de
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we’re in the same boat, but it does the job and stays under 45°C even under load, so I’m not complaining

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tired_n_bored@lemmy.world
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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

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