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17W for an N100 system with 4 HDD's

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.

0.1kWh per hour? Day? Month?

What's in your system?

Around 18-20 Watts on idle. It can go up to about 40 W at 100% load.

I have a Intel N100, I'm really happy about performance per watt, to be honest.

50W-ish idle? Ryzen 1700, 2 HDDs, and a GTX 750ti. My next upgrade will hopefully cut this in half.

Do you mean 0.1kWh per hour, so 0.1kW or 100W?

My N100 server needs about 11W.

My whole setup including 2 PIs and one fully speced out AM4 system with 100TB of drives a Intel Arc and 4x 32gb ecc ram uses between 280W - 420W I live in Germany and pay 25ct per KWh and my whole apartment uses 600w at any given time and approximately 15kwh per day 😭

9 spinning disks and a couple SSD's - Right around 190 watts, but that also includes my router and 3 PoE WiFi AP's. PoE consumption is reported as 20 watts, and the router should use about 10 watts, so I think the server is about 160 watts.

Electricity here is pretty expensive, about $.33 per kWh, so by my math I'm spending $38/month on this stuff. If I didn't have lots of digital media it'd be worth it to get a VPS probably. $38/month is still cheaper than Netflix, HBO, and all the other junk I'd have to subscribe to.

last I checked with a kill-a-watt I was drawing an average of 2.5kWh after a week of monitoring my whole rack. that was about three years ago and the following was running in my rack.

• r610 dual 1kw PSU
• homebuilt server Gigabyte 750w PSU
• homebuilt Asus gaming rig 650w PSU
• homebuilt Asus retro(xp) gaming/testing rig 350w PSU
• HP laptop as dev env/warmsite ~ 200w PSU
• Amcrest NVR 80w (I guess?)
• HP T610 65w PSU
• Terramaster F5-422 90w PSU
• TP-Link TL-SG2424P 180w PSU
• Brocade ICX6610-48P-E dual dual 1kw PSU
• Misc routers, rpis, poe aps, modems(cable & 5G) ~ 700w combined (cameras not included, brocade powers them directly)

I also have two battery systems split between high priority and low priority infrastructure.

Idle: 30 Watts

Starting all docker containers after reboot: 140 Watts

It needs around 28 kWh per month.

My 10 year old ITX NAS build with 4 HDDs used 40W at idle. Just upgraded to an Aoostart WTR Pro with the same 4 HDDs, uses 28W at idle. My power bill currently averages around US$0.13/kWh.

About 700 watts, it makes for a decent space heater in the winter.

I think at max 200w? It runs a collection of fedi/self service stuff.

I also run a pi with a couple of apps on a pi 3 that sips power.

It's a legitimate issue because it's 50+ cents per killowat hour where I live so power is very expensive...

My server with 8 hard drives uses about 60 watts and goes up to around 80 under heavy load. The firewall, switch, access points and modem use another 50-60 watts.

I really need upgrade my server and firewall to something about 10 years newer, it would reduce my power consumption quite a bit and I would have a lot more runtime on UPS.

I'm idling at 120W with eight drives, but I'm currently looking into how to lower it.

For two servers (one with a lot of spinning rust), two switches, and a few other miscellaneous network appliances. My server rack averages around 600-650W. During periods of high demand (nightly backups, for instance), that can peak at around 750W.

80-100 watts at idle which is most of the time. Two OS drives, two fast drives, two spinners, lots of networking and always syncing with the rest of the cluster.