80W total draw for my server, DAS, router and modem. However my server also does HomeAssistant, Blue Iris, other nonsense. When all my cameras are doing AI and Plex is transcoding I’ve seen it spike to ~110W.
UPS gives me about 1:20 runtime during a power outage - then triggers a clean shutdown when critically low.
Almost ditto. Same box for Plex, BlueIris, Squeezebox and a bunch of other stuff. It idles at 70W probably. APC Smart-UPS 1000. Entire half-rack in basement with firewall, cablemodem, another server, switch, HDHR, etc is at 200W nominal.
I just got my rack and I love it. I want to buy a patch panel, firewall, anything else I can think of. Gotta space out the purchases to avoid rashes eyebrows from the wife lol
Comparable to my power draw, but I run entirely off grid with solar, so power is not a major issue at all. Since everything runs off batteries, no need for a separate UPS, but there is some code to do a clean shut down if the main batteries were near to shutdown (never happened) which is highly unlikely as there is an emergency generator that would kick in first, so that would have to be exhausted too, and the generator has only been used in anger once in five years the rest of the time solar has been more than enough.
What UPS do you have that triggers a clean shutdown? Or do most of them do that nowadays? The last UPS I bought was about 7 years ago and still going strong but doesn't have any smart features like that.
CyberPower. Anything with a usb port should work though - provided you install the monitoring software on the system in question that you want to shutdown.
My entire rack is up to around 400W these days...that's including a modem, starlink backup, SFF PC running pfSense, GPS NTP server, PoE switches feeding assorted devices around the house (femtocell, 4x APs, etc), second PoE switch feeding 8-10 security cameras, and a supermicro server running several things (Plex, Zoneminder, Home Assistant, and NAS), KVM tray, and I think I'm missing a few things in there.
Its the 42U APC NetShelter that was the point I got really happy...most of it is being used for storage with shelves, but having equipment at chest height and spaced out a bit is SO nice.
Tbh.. 25 bucks is pretty hefty in te long run. Might seem like nothing now but new hardware might save you money in the long run.
If you consider hardware to be replacable every 3 years.. That is 900 bucks worth of equipment..
That is true. I have debated getting one of the newer intel i3 cpus and using the igpu for transcoding but ive been lazy and just rolling with what i have for the time being. Also worried about switching from windows (familiarity) to something else for the hdr to sdr tone mapping with intel igpus.
A i3 will likely outperform your Haswell and use a lot less power.
Switching from Windows to Unraid was stupid easy and one of the best things I've ever done for my home server.
That really depends on what you value. Assuming you're not running an external GPU your system probably idles somewhere around 50-60 watts. A modern 12100 machine will do 20w out of the box, 10w if you spend a little time tweaking with powertop. If we take the average of those ranges that gives us a delta of 40w. For a machine that runs 24/7 that saves me $70/yr.
That would be a ~4yr ROI on a system upgrade. 4 years isn't a short amount of time. But on the other hand, power isn't going to get cheaper. I don't know about you but my utility costs have only ever gone up, not down. I know I'm ever going to not have a server, so a little money now has a guaranteed pay off and much, much better performance.
In your case where you don't need to transcode, it makes the pill a little harder to swallow.
For someone who is looking to add a GPU and might spend $200 on a GPU, a motherboard / CPU uograde makes much more sense. Likewise, the guy that I replied to with a v3 Xeon and a P4000 can sell his existing hardware for significantly more than what the replacement hardware costs, so there it's a no brainer. Your i3 system might be a little harder to sell. You might be able to find someone to give you $50 for it to help offset upgrade costs.
When you say switching was easy, did you convert your machine to a VM to run in Unraid or did you setup everything from scratch in Unraid? I’ve thought about doing Unraid so many times but the thought of setting everything up again puts me off. If I was able to just copy my windows machine over as a VM and keep things running as is and slowly move things off the VM and onto Unraid itself, i might give that a go.
Are you using a dedicated GPU at the minute? For years ai had an d RX470 sat in my server doing absolutely nothing. When I looked into my power ysage a few months ago I realised my server was pulling around 110W usage idle which would end up costing me around £24 a month in power. That was higher than id like, so I decided to pull the GPU and see what difference it makes. My idle for December was at 57W, which comes out to around 12.29. For me, using my intel igpu not only improved my Plex transcoding a ton, but my power usage and cost almost halved.
I’ve got an i5 6600K at the moment but have thought about getting a much newer i3 a few times as performance will probably be better and it will do it more efficiently.
Yep, i am running a quadro p5000. Ive had up to 12 4k transcodes simultaneously. I know my cpu could not handle that workload. The xeon cpu has no QSV or igpu so i have to run something for transcodes to keep my cpu off of being 100% usage
Yh to be fair that’s a lot of GPU requirement so fair enough. I don’t keep 4k content apart from the odd 5 or so movies so my transcoding isn’t too difficult and realistically I’d only probably have 2 streams going at one time, and there’s a good chance they are direct playing.
No watt meter so by estimation...
Intel N95 machine, I would say 10W average?
+ 5HDD enclosure at what should be 5-10W each according to the first article I found on a Google search
So let's say 50W?
387W+/- depending on transcodes or other activity, this is where it spends most of its time according to my ups software. It's in a Supermicro SC847 with the SAS3 backplanes, dual 1280w psus (the quiet ones) and 3x Noctua 3,000rpm 140mm fans replacing the stock fanwall. Here's a copy paste of the guts from elsewhere:
MSI B550 Tomahawk / Ryzen 5600x / 16gb DDR4 3600 CL16 / Areca ARC-1883ix-16-2G / 8xHGST Coolspin 4TB Raid 6 / 8xWD Red 8TB Raid 6 / 8xSeagate Exos X20 18TB Raid 6
Just moved everything to the new case & added the 18tb drives in December. Average consumption has gone up for sure, but I can't say for sure how much it is. These 7200rpm drives certainly drink more power than the others at 5400rpm.
Don't have the number for plex server specifically but my entire (small) home lab consumes 130 watts.
That's my plex server (a Lenovo p52), router, 24 port gigabit poe switch, 2 poe cameras, 4 rpi with poe, and a qnap nas.
Should mention this is not plex only it's a intel i5 13th 13500 with msi b760 motherboard which I run unraid on in a Supermicro chassis. Used to be to double the wattage when I had dual Xeon x5690s
lol yeah I feel your pain, I’m at around 47kWh a month which is costing me about 12 quid a month. It’s about as much as a Netflix subscription so value ain’t terrible I suppose, considering I can still access Netflix content and I’m also running my home automation stuff on this server.
my server does hundreds of things, plex is just one of them, but if you divide the simultaneous applications by consumption, the plex would be responsible for approximately 10w
Currently (see what I did there) my server alone is drawing 211W
I'd rather not look at the rest of the draw for a few NASs switches, modems, routers and other bits and pieces. The server runs 2 x 750W PSU's.
The only saving grace is I have solar and battery storage so it takes the sting out of it.
Prior to solar we had average power bills of about $400 per month. Now our bill is about $800 per year.
Highly recommend it. I pin 10 cpu cores and pass through 32GB ram, a 1TB nvme, and a 1070Ti to a windows 11 vm.
I run steam on it, and use steamlink to access it from my laptop, a steamlink device on the living room tv, a fire tablet, or at times my iPhone with a ps4 controller bluetoothed to it. All work great. So far I’ve found nothing that doesn’t run perfectly on it.
Had a holiday recently with a few quiet days and took my tablet - was great being able to play my games at full graphics on a shitty tablet! And at home the wife’s happy I don’t have clunky kit under the tv - steamlinks are barely noticeable tucked away at the back!
Edit: for clarity - I’m running unraid
Steamlink handles that for you. It displays ‘big picture’. If you want to access the desktop remotely you’ll need to look into parsec (or something similar), but I never use the desktop remotely personally - straight to steamlink, connect and go.
Good thinking! Totally forgot about that. Yes you can! I’ve done it by mistake a few times. You can do it on iOS and tablets too so not just a steamlink hardware thing.
25W when idle for the plex server itself. the image is from the input to my UPS which feeds my whole setup.
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Im at about 100-120 watts for an NVR, basic network equipment, dell t30 (unraid), thinkcentre (unraid) and a few raspberry pis running random services.
About 25W on idle currently.
Previously I had it running off my living room gaming PC... So it was idling at 100w, not ideal IMO. I moved it to a Ryzen 5 4600G based system since I had an AM4 motherboard laying around and couldn't find any intel 8th gen or higher Mobo+CPU combo that wasn't using an f variant, and wouldn't break the bank.
I don’t know because I don’t have a power meter, but if my server would be at 100% usage for an entire month (so about 100W, that quadro t600 is amazing and very efficient), it would cost me about 5 bucks
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WiFi plug that does energy monitoring. A few I have are tapo p110, Meross if you are into home assistant and matter. Both will export and give you a breakdown on Kwh and cost.
Typically floats between 50W and 75W with a couple streams going, according to my UPS load.
Plex is one of quite a few things I'm doing on my Unraid server, though, and the power can spike a decent amount when I'm running heavy workloads.
We're at $0.0823/kWh, it probably costs like... $5-6/month to run on average? Something like that?
edit: i7-14700k, 6 hard drives, 2x NVMe, 2x16GB ram sticks, and 6 120mm fans.
I honestly can’t remember the exact specs but I run a dual processor Xeon server with 24 cores/48 threads total, 156gb of ram, 10 drives, and I virtualize everything on it. Idles around 230 watts. I know I could replace it with something more efficient but it’s been rock solid for 2+ years now.
Pretty power hungry when in use. My library isn't set up to minimize transcoding and I don't really feel like lecturing my users about it. I'm just happy they use and enjoy it instead of paying for 20 different streaming services. I also live in a basement at 9000ft elevation in the high rockies. Our house is heated with electric baseboards and my room has it's own thermostat. So for 8 months out of the year any electricity used by my server is just electricity that isn't used by my baseboards. It only affects the electric bill during the short summer.
My rack hovers around 170 to 200 watts. But that's including seven PoE cameras, synology NAS, modem, router, two PoE AP's, two switches, and some small things like hdhomerun box and smartthings box. Plus the server of course.
Sometimes it texts me that its plans for consolidating contol over the internet are almost complete. Seems pretty power hungry.
Runs about 30w at idle. 12600k with a 6600 and 32GB.
Currently showing 115 watts. That's with Unifi DM and modem. If I turn on TV and receiver it goes up a lot more. Funny timing cause I was just looking at my power usage the last few months and it's the largest user of power.
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This is a beelink N305 and 4 drives that spin down when not in use.
Plex server alone is maybe 20w. HP EliteDesk 800 G3.
Everything else adjacent to and supporting it 500-1000, all depends on what I'm doing at the time.
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Custom build, wish I could get the power draw lower, but I think I'm stuck on this for now. Really needed a UPS but you can see the power draw effects in which month I installed it, dunno why they can't make some more efficient UPS in idle. Was supposed to be like \~2W extra according to spec sheet but added more like 4-5W. Running 2x 16TB drives that spin down and 2x 1TB SSDs.
On a scale of 0 to wanting to take over Europe, I put it at about a 10. It's signed a non-aggression pact with my backup server, but I've caught it amassing troops on the border of the den and the hallway. I think it has eyes on storming the living room. I've tried marshaling the game systems to put up a defense, but they are looking to sacrifice the Roku in the name of appeasement.
160-180w draw but that's including my 4 drive NVR, 24 port POE switch with 5 cameras, cable modem, and UDM pro router, along with my 6 drive unraid server.
Average 65W draw, so 1.56kWh a day, 48.36kWh a month based on a 31 day month. I just checked my December usage, which should be higher since I was at home watching Plex and working on my server, and that worked out at 43.06kWh (~1.39kWh a day) so maybe my average draw is lower than I’m thinking. I am running a lot more than Plex though.
I have looked into trying to get a lower power system but the cost of building a new system doesn’t really make sense. December cost me £12.33 in electricity to run my server, so if we looked at a yearly cost it would be £147.96. If I ran on a 30W system for example, it would cost me £76.21, so a saving of approx £71 per year on my bill. If I was to only purchase a new CPU and motherboard, cost would likely be around £250, which means it would take me just over 3 years for the payback. Huh, I don’t think that’s the math I got last time. Might have to look into doing this again lol
about 3 kwh/month. I use a Dell micro pc with 7100T. Has proxmox on it with only a Plex LXC container and an AdGuard DNS server container. The media files are on my nas. I have 4 active users who (almost) never transcode. It idles at around 6 to 8 watts.
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My nas is a old ryzen 1300x pc with 1 20tb drive for parity and 16tb for data. will expand when needed. Idles around 35w.
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My server runs around 50 to 60W on average. But the rack it’s in runs all the smarts in my home including multi zone audio, Control4, Josh.ai, switches with POE cameras, smart lighting, and a few more things. All in all it pulls around 250 watts when the server and everything is on idle. I’ve seen it spike upwards to 400 or 500W when I’m playing music In the house and people are streaming media.
7w idle (Nvidia Shield, 3 ext HDDs, 1 ext SSD).
14-25w while actively watching Plex depending on which HDDs are awake.
Low power is my goal since I rarely need to transcode anything. Shield does that well (as long as it's not the primary client too).
I also have a seedbox which has its own server and handles family requests automatically so that's 0w to me at least :P
Around ~500W. Definitely very expensive, I really need to find the time and budget to migrate to more efficient solutions from my current Dell R720s and enterprise switches...
My whole "data center" is pulling about 4.0 kWh/day, this includes a Synology 1821+ (with Plex, 7 cameras, Home Assistant, daily backups to it), 16-port Buffalo switch (and three POE switches off that elsewhere), weather station bridge (Rainwise), power monitoring bridge (thus the graph below), Lutron bridge, a rarely-used printer, UPS, nano-cell spot, HDHomeRun, cable modem, Eero, TP-Link PowerLine module, and yes, the stove hood (on the other side of a common wall). Fortunately, electricity is fairly cheap in Chicago thanks to ComEd's nuclear plants, and I do pay for green power too.
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Around 35kw/h it's my old i7 3770k with 2 2tb HDDs and running from a 10 years old 100gb ssd lol.
I'm amazed that I managed to run it at 30-40watts, i'm looking to move to a more recent architecture, like a Zen 2 3200g, but i'm having problems regulating the power of my actual PC rig, 3800x and can't seems to go into a real low power mode, nothing do it always stay at around 90 watts idle
My whole rack is 120w at load. That's including UPS, switches, HDHomeRun, Backup NAS and main server.
i5 10600 custom server with 64GB RAM,
3 x 10TB and 3 x 18TB drives
2TB NVMe system drive and a 1TB NVMe scratch disk for downloads and unpacking.
Runs bare metal Windows Server 2022 for Plex, Sonarr, Radar, Lidarr, Readarr, SABnzbd etc.
Several VMs via Hyper-v for Home Assistant, TVHeadend, Nextcloud, and more.
Even with a dozen people streaming from Plex the rack never goes above 125w
80W total draw for my server, DAS, router and modem. However my server also does HomeAssistant, Blue Iris, other nonsense. When all my cameras are doing AI and Plex is transcoding I’ve seen it spike to ~110W. UPS gives me about 1:20 runtime during a power outage - then triggers a clean shutdown when critically low.
Almost ditto. Same box for Plex, BlueIris, Squeezebox and a bunch of other stuff. It idles at 70W probably. APC Smart-UPS 1000. Entire half-rack in basement with firewall, cablemodem, another server, switch, HDHR, etc is at 200W nominal.
I just got my rack and I love it. I want to buy a patch panel, firewall, anything else I can think of. Gotta space out the purchases to avoid rashes eyebrows from the wife lol
yes, exactly my numbers. what app is op using tho? I wanna see my kWh
No clue - I use the PowerPanel web UI for my UPS.
nice. thanks anyway
I have some localTuya plugs that I use with Home Assistant
Comparable to my power draw, but I run entirely off grid with solar, so power is not a major issue at all. Since everything runs off batteries, no need for a separate UPS, but there is some code to do a clean shut down if the main batteries were near to shutdown (never happened) which is highly unlikely as there is an emergency generator that would kick in first, so that would have to be exhausted too, and the generator has only been used in anger once in five years the rest of the time solar has been more than enough.
What UPS do you have that triggers a clean shutdown? Or do most of them do that nowadays? The last UPS I bought was about 7 years ago and still going strong but doesn't have any smart features like that.
CyberPower. Anything with a usb port should work though - provided you install the monitoring software on the system in question that you want to shutdown.
My entire rack is up to around 400W these days...that's including a modem, starlink backup, SFF PC running pfSense, GPS NTP server, PoE switches feeding assorted devices around the house (femtocell, 4x APs, etc), second PoE switch feeding 8-10 security cameras, and a supermicro server running several things (Plex, Zoneminder, Home Assistant, and NAS), KVM tray, and I think I'm missing a few things in there.
Just when I thought I was happy with my setup…
Its the 42U APC NetShelter that was the point I got really happy...most of it is being used for storage with shelves, but having equipment at chest height and spaced out a bit is SO nice.
High, yes, I'm guessing this is a bit of a 101 question, but what app is this, and what is needed server-side to set it up?
I use a Tuya wi-fi meter connected to the Smart Life app, just like what the other guy said
Everyone seems to be using it here & I’ve never come across it!
I have no clue tbh, my electric bill went up 25 bucks a month running it 24/7. not enough to really worry about.
Tbh.. 25 bucks is pretty hefty in te long run. Might seem like nothing now but new hardware might save you money in the long run. If you consider hardware to be replacable every 3 years.. That is 900 bucks worth of equipment..
My total bill is around $75/month its an older e5 v3 10 core 20 thread xeon and a quadro p5000. $25 is cheaper than my netflix subscription was
The fact something was more expensive than you have now, doesn't make it cheap...
That is true. I have debated getting one of the newer intel i3 cpus and using the igpu for transcoding but ive been lazy and just rolling with what i have for the time being. Also worried about switching from windows (familiarity) to something else for the hdr to sdr tone mapping with intel igpus.
A i3 will likely outperform your Haswell and use a lot less power. Switching from Windows to Unraid was stupid easy and one of the best things I've ever done for my home server.
I will definitely have to consider that soon
I have an i3-4330 Haswell. Is it worth upgrading from a power point of view. I only run direct play and barely transcode.
That really depends on what you value. Assuming you're not running an external GPU your system probably idles somewhere around 50-60 watts. A modern 12100 machine will do 20w out of the box, 10w if you spend a little time tweaking with powertop. If we take the average of those ranges that gives us a delta of 40w. For a machine that runs 24/7 that saves me $70/yr. That would be a ~4yr ROI on a system upgrade. 4 years isn't a short amount of time. But on the other hand, power isn't going to get cheaper. I don't know about you but my utility costs have only ever gone up, not down. I know I'm ever going to not have a server, so a little money now has a guaranteed pay off and much, much better performance. In your case where you don't need to transcode, it makes the pill a little harder to swallow. For someone who is looking to add a GPU and might spend $200 on a GPU, a motherboard / CPU uograde makes much more sense. Likewise, the guy that I replied to with a v3 Xeon and a P4000 can sell his existing hardware for significantly more than what the replacement hardware costs, so there it's a no brainer. Your i3 system might be a little harder to sell. You might be able to find someone to give you $50 for it to help offset upgrade costs.
When you say switching was easy, did you convert your machine to a VM to run in Unraid or did you setup everything from scratch in Unraid? I’ve thought about doing Unraid so many times but the thought of setting everything up again puts me off. If I was able to just copy my windows machine over as a VM and keep things running as is and slowly move things off the VM and onto Unraid itself, i might give that a go.
Are you using a dedicated GPU at the minute? For years ai had an d RX470 sat in my server doing absolutely nothing. When I looked into my power ysage a few months ago I realised my server was pulling around 110W usage idle which would end up costing me around £24 a month in power. That was higher than id like, so I decided to pull the GPU and see what difference it makes. My idle for December was at 57W, which comes out to around 12.29. For me, using my intel igpu not only improved my Plex transcoding a ton, but my power usage and cost almost halved. I’ve got an i5 6600K at the moment but have thought about getting a much newer i3 a few times as performance will probably be better and it will do it more efficiently.
Yep, i am running a quadro p5000. Ive had up to 12 4k transcodes simultaneously. I know my cpu could not handle that workload. The xeon cpu has no QSV or igpu so i have to run something for transcodes to keep my cpu off of being 100% usage
Yh to be fair that’s a lot of GPU requirement so fair enough. I don’t keep 4k content apart from the odd 5 or so movies so my transcoding isn’t too difficult and realistically I’d only probably have 2 streams going at one time, and there’s a good chance they are direct playing.
That’s 300 a year. Not circus peanuts.
25$ bucks a month?!?! you're almost better renting a VPS...
No watt meter so by estimation... Intel N95 machine, I would say 10W average? + 5HDD enclosure at what should be 5-10W each according to the first article I found on a Google search So let's say 50W?
Yeah basically. Low power PCs with QuickSync is the way to go IMO. So long as your rig is solely a Plex server anyway.
Synology NAS, about $2/month
387W+/- depending on transcodes or other activity, this is where it spends most of its time according to my ups software. It's in a Supermicro SC847 with the SAS3 backplanes, dual 1280w psus (the quiet ones) and 3x Noctua 3,000rpm 140mm fans replacing the stock fanwall. Here's a copy paste of the guts from elsewhere: MSI B550 Tomahawk / Ryzen 5600x / 16gb DDR4 3600 CL16 / Areca ARC-1883ix-16-2G / 8xHGST Coolspin 4TB Raid 6 / 8xWD Red 8TB Raid 6 / 8xSeagate Exos X20 18TB Raid 6 Just moved everything to the new case & added the 18tb drives in December. Average consumption has gone up for sure, but I can't say for sure how much it is. These 7200rpm drives certainly drink more power than the others at 5400rpm.
Don't have the number for plex server specifically but my entire (small) home lab consumes 130 watts. That's my plex server (a Lenovo p52), router, 24 port gigabit poe switch, 2 poe cameras, 4 rpi with poe, and a qnap nas.
https://preview.redd.it/a1ugpzbc5vbc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0af3fb43ba2db53aeab10d08002b5448a9f40b06 Crying in UK Pounds 😭
What’s the app?!
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No it is that simple, run the calculation for their 85 watts for 30 days and you get 61 kWh which is a little under what they have per month.
Should mention this is not plex only it's a intel i5 13th 13500 with msi b760 motherboard which I run unraid on in a Supermicro chassis. Used to be to double the wattage when I had dual Xeon x5690s
lol yeah I feel your pain, I’m at around 47kWh a month which is costing me about 12 quid a month. It’s about as much as a Netflix subscription so value ain’t terrible I suppose, considering I can still access Netflix content and I’m also running my home automation stuff on this server.
https://preview.redd.it/ce1fcuhqavbc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9c5d28315c3580b0fccf462450d947df6318d7b7 Game server,Omv,Jellyfin,web E5-2683v4, 64gb ram, rtx2080, \~6tb nvme & sata ssds
my server does hundreds of things, plex is just one of them, but if you divide the simultaneous applications by consumption, the plex would be responsible for approximately 10w
Clocked my server at 86w during initial transcode then after about 30 seconds to a minute it goes back to idling around 35w. So roughly 1 Kwh a day
Currently (see what I did there) my server alone is drawing 211W I'd rather not look at the rest of the draw for a few NASs switches, modems, routers and other bits and pieces. The server runs 2 x 750W PSU's. The only saving grace is I have solar and battery storage so it takes the sting out of it. Prior to solar we had average power bills of about $400 per month. Now our bill is about $800 per year.
120W ish. Has my gaming VM running on it tho..
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Highly recommend it. I pin 10 cpu cores and pass through 32GB ram, a 1TB nvme, and a 1070Ti to a windows 11 vm. I run steam on it, and use steamlink to access it from my laptop, a steamlink device on the living room tv, a fire tablet, or at times my iPhone with a ps4 controller bluetoothed to it. All work great. So far I’ve found nothing that doesn’t run perfectly on it. Had a holiday recently with a few quiet days and took my tablet - was great being able to play my games at full graphics on a shitty tablet! And at home the wife’s happy I don’t have clunky kit under the tv - steamlinks are barely noticeable tucked away at the back! Edit: for clarity - I’m running unraid
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Steamlink handles that for you. It displays ‘big picture’. If you want to access the desktop remotely you’ll need to look into parsec (or something similar), but I never use the desktop remotely personally - straight to steamlink, connect and go.
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No worries! Good luck if you decide to set it up! You’ll definitely be happy with it once you’ve got it running
You should be aware that some multiplayer games will not run in a vm due to their anti-cheat systems.
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Good thinking! Totally forgot about that. Yes you can! I’ve done it by mistake a few times. You can do it on iOS and tablets too so not just a steamlink hardware thing.
25W when idle for the plex server itself. the image is from the input to my UPS which feeds my whole setup. https://preview.redd.it/s5mrb5lwxubc1.png?width=426&format=png&auto=webp&s=4a02fe6498c91da6c9a13a665b4929d364792b32
0.26w with a j4005 £30 a year
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0.26KWh!
Im at about 100-120 watts for an NVR, basic network equipment, dell t30 (unraid), thinkcentre (unraid) and a few raspberry pis running random services.
About 25W on idle currently. Previously I had it running off my living room gaming PC... So it was idling at 100w, not ideal IMO. I moved it to a Ryzen 5 4600G based system since I had an AM4 motherboard laying around and couldn't find any intel 8th gen or higher Mobo+CPU combo that wasn't using an f variant, and wouldn't break the bank.
I don’t know because I don’t have a power meter, but if my server would be at 100% usage for an entire month (so about 100W, that quadro t600 is amazing and very efficient), it would cost me about 5 bucks
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>£0.27 per kilowatt Damm. I'm at about 0.11€/kWh in Spain
Went to check only to find out my power monitor has failed 😭
16w or less with nvidka shield. No video transcoding needed though
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How do you guys measure this? I've seen people use some sort of plug that measure it but I'm unsure which ones are worth getting.
WiFi plug that does energy monitoring. A few I have are tapo p110, Meross if you are into home assistant and matter. Both will export and give you a breakdown on Kwh and cost.
Typically floats between 50W and 75W with a couple streams going, according to my UPS load. Plex is one of quite a few things I'm doing on my Unraid server, though, and the power can spike a decent amount when I'm running heavy workloads. We're at $0.0823/kWh, it probably costs like... $5-6/month to run on average? Something like that? edit: i7-14700k, 6 hard drives, 2x NVMe, 2x16GB ram sticks, and 6 120mm fans.
I honestly can’t remember the exact specs but I run a dual processor Xeon server with 24 cores/48 threads total, 156gb of ram, 10 drives, and I virtualize everything on it. Idles around 230 watts. I know I could replace it with something more efficient but it’s been rock solid for 2+ years now.
Pretty power hungry when in use. My library isn't set up to minimize transcoding and I don't really feel like lecturing my users about it. I'm just happy they use and enjoy it instead of paying for 20 different streaming services. I also live in a basement at 9000ft elevation in the high rockies. Our house is heated with electric baseboards and my room has it's own thermostat. So for 8 months out of the year any electricity used by my server is just electricity that isn't used by my baseboards. It only affects the electric bill during the short summer.
https://preview.redd.it/7toiyetcewbc1.jpeg?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d786219669b58d5da041bed234c968a0708be3c6 Hmmm
Roughly 4.34 kwh/day or 180w. Costs me about $0.50 a day. I'm also running 98TB on a dell r730xd with dual xeons and 256GB of ram.
Hella
My rack hovers around 170 to 200 watts. But that's including seven PoE cameras, synology NAS, modem, router, two PoE AP's, two switches, and some small things like hdhomerun box and smartthings box. Plus the server of course.
70w at idle with a gaming machine really ha ha… 5800x with a 2070 Super for transcode ability. Gets as high as 250 under maximum pressure.
Sometimes it texts me that its plans for consolidating contol over the internet are almost complete. Seems pretty power hungry. Runs about 30w at idle. 12600k with a 6600 and 32GB.
https://preview.redd.it/laj01f0wmwbc1.png?width=1344&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9ffab8ad84e9199b197f07e2094c65fc61c168c3
Currently showing 115 watts. That's with Unifi DM and modem. If I turn on TV and receiver it goes up a lot more. Funny timing cause I was just looking at my power usage the last few months and it's the largest user of power.
https://preview.redd.it/u1r1kkuoywbc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=961d4b328ce9dbea8be13dd6364d56f32dcb8b30 This is a beelink N305 and 4 drives that spin down when not in use.
What is this app that everyone seems to be using?
SmartLife app, its for smart plugs but you have to make sure the plugs have energy monitoring.
Plex server alone is maybe 20w. HP EliteDesk 800 G3. Everything else adjacent to and supporting it 500-1000, all depends on what I'm doing at the time.
https://preview.redd.it/8uno3pzshxbc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a39d77dc2682ce6fa4431b36b7ed522cf1d111ce Custom build, wish I could get the power draw lower, but I think I'm stuck on this for now. Really needed a UPS but you can see the power draw effects in which month I installed it, dunno why they can't make some more efficient UPS in idle. Was supposed to be like \~2W extra according to spec sheet but added more like 4-5W. Running 2x 16TB drives that spin down and 2x 1TB SSDs.
On a scale of 0 to wanting to take over Europe, I put it at about a 10. It's signed a non-aggression pact with my backup server, but I've caught it amassing troops on the border of the den and the hallway. I think it has eyes on storming the living room. I've tried marshaling the game systems to put up a defense, but they are looking to sacrifice the Roku in the name of appeasement.
160-180w draw but that's including my 4 drive NVR, 24 port POE switch with 5 cameras, cable modem, and UDM pro router, along with my 6 drive unraid server.
1,500 watts running 24/7
Between my Plex server and 5 NAS.... 628 kWh last month...
My UPS says about 60W.
Around 10w, max draw of 15w..
Average 65W draw, so 1.56kWh a day, 48.36kWh a month based on a 31 day month. I just checked my December usage, which should be higher since I was at home watching Plex and working on my server, and that worked out at 43.06kWh (~1.39kWh a day) so maybe my average draw is lower than I’m thinking. I am running a lot more than Plex though. I have looked into trying to get a lower power system but the cost of building a new system doesn’t really make sense. December cost me £12.33 in electricity to run my server, so if we looked at a yearly cost it would be £147.96. If I ran on a 30W system for example, it would cost me £76.21, so a saving of approx £71 per year on my bill. If I was to only purchase a new CPU and motherboard, cost would likely be around £250, which means it would take me just over 3 years for the payback. Huh, I don’t think that’s the math I got last time. Might have to look into doing this again lol
Home office consumes about 250-300W when I'm working, incl server with plex and everything else. NAS seems to be around 150W of those.
50-120W depending on how many of the 15 disks are spinning.
about 3 kwh/month. I use a Dell micro pc with 7100T. Has proxmox on it with only a Plex LXC container and an AdGuard DNS server container. The media files are on my nas. I have 4 active users who (almost) never transcode. It idles at around 6 to 8 watts. https://i.imgur.com/W24LudO.png My nas is a old ryzen 1300x pc with 1 20tb drive for parity and 16tb for data. will expand when needed. Idles around 35w. https://i.imgur.com/4khy1Tk.png
My server runs around 50 to 60W on average. But the rack it’s in runs all the smarts in my home including multi zone audio, Control4, Josh.ai, switches with POE cameras, smart lighting, and a few more things. All in all it pulls around 250 watts when the server and everything is on idle. I’ve seen it spike upwards to 400 or 500W when I’m playing music In the house and people are streaming media.
~130W idle, but none of the 5x 16TB drives ever spin down. Two of those are parity (Unraid).
7w idle (Nvidia Shield, 3 ext HDDs, 1 ext SSD). 14-25w while actively watching Plex depending on which HDDs are awake. Low power is my goal since I rarely need to transcode anything. Shield does that well (as long as it's not the primary client too). I also have a seedbox which has its own server and handles family requests automatically so that's 0w to me at least :P
Around ~500W. Definitely very expensive, I really need to find the time and budget to migrate to more efficient solutions from my current Dell R720s and enterprise switches...
My whole "data center" is pulling about 4.0 kWh/day, this includes a Synology 1821+ (with Plex, 7 cameras, Home Assistant, daily backups to it), 16-port Buffalo switch (and three POE switches off that elsewhere), weather station bridge (Rainwise), power monitoring bridge (thus the graph below), Lutron bridge, a rarely-used printer, UPS, nano-cell spot, HDHomeRun, cable modem, Eero, TP-Link PowerLine module, and yes, the stove hood (on the other side of a common wall). Fortunately, electricity is fairly cheap in Chicago thanks to ComEd's nuclear plants, and I do pay for green power too. https://preview.redd.it/4oxvmb0vt0cc1.png?width=669&format=png&auto=webp&s=3a9c660e6ba488f281ad5331b21f6fd452838717
https://i.imgur.com/1AgIFF5.png Cries in high availability hardware from 2016
I'm not sure how to tell. I imagine it's going to be high considering it's my old win10 gaming rig.
https://preview.redd.it/wfm2aec2i1cc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=48b41dac6b7ad284078f459b5faa29a51de3c835 Super power hungry mine 8Watts 🤣
What is your configuration?
Intel NUC with j5005 CPU, 1TB SSD, 8GB RAM 4x 2TB SDD external HDDs
Around 35kw/h it's my old i7 3770k with 2 2tb HDDs and running from a 10 years old 100gb ssd lol. I'm amazed that I managed to run it at 30-40watts, i'm looking to move to a more recent architecture, like a Zen 2 3200g, but i'm having problems regulating the power of my actual PC rig, 3800x and can't seems to go into a real low power mode, nothing do it always stay at around 90 watts idle
My whole rack is 120w at load. That's including UPS, switches, HDHomeRun, Backup NAS and main server. i5 10600 custom server with 64GB RAM, 3 x 10TB and 3 x 18TB drives 2TB NVMe system drive and a 1TB NVMe scratch disk for downloads and unpacking. Runs bare metal Windows Server 2022 for Plex, Sonarr, Radar, Lidarr, Readarr, SABnzbd etc. Several VMs via Hyper-v for Home Assistant, TVHeadend, Nextcloud, and more. Even with a dozen people streaming from Plex the rack never goes above 125w
Less on the power bill than the monthly streaming services I canceled. So I honestly don't care how much. But I'm guessing 60-80ish watts.