Kinda curious what people’s power draw is. Mine sits at about 50-60W at idle.
I’m kinda new to self hosting but I have immich and jellyfin severs. And then a little LLM role-playing game I made running locally on an older gaming laptop. It spikes up to like 170W for like 30 secords when playing when the “Dungeon Master” responds.
Idk just like to hear what other people got going on! I’ll probably still tinker to get my power draw down even more if possible
Yeah, I’m feeling the pain from my old enterprise gear but moving away from it has been hard. Right now I have an old 720XD for storage (12, 6tb spinning rust, 2 smaller SSDs for cache), an old Intel server with shitloads of RAM, an old R610 (at this point it’s only there for a service or two that I could surely migrate), a couple old HP MicroServer gen8’s, and an old HP SFF desktop. There are months my power bill looks like a mortgage.
I feel that.
Before I downsized, I was running 3x HP DL360 G6’s with dual Xenons and 96 GB RAM each. Way overkill for my needs but I got them cheap. Unfortunately, they and my air conditioner competed to see who could use the most electricity each month. 😆
The only thing I really lost in the scale down was the ability to spin up dev/test VMs for every little purpose. I’ve mostly just started using Docker containers for things like build environments.
The one with shitloads of RAM has 768GB and a pair of Xenons… My default VM gets more RAM than my desktop, but it’s great for the rare occasion I need a big-ass ramdisk or something. I was going to build a small jbod and get a couple USFF systems (possibly thin clients) to host my docker containers… Then disk prices went through the roof.
Ugh, yeah. My “temporary” spinners that were an emergency upgrade became permanent when I went to buy the new ones and prices had skyrocketed. I’ve got one cold spare left, so hopefully there’s a price break in the near-ish future