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?
Around 100w usually for:
- ccr2004
- crs309
- old epyc 7601 server (about 60w, 8 HDDs with spindown, 5 ssds and a mcx311 10G)
- homeassistant raspi separate from the main server
- poe switch for phone and ap.
All connected to a UPS so measuring is easy and power usage is constant. I would prefer lower as power cost is very high but there is not really anything significant to save at the moment as the server board has no standby function and i need it most of the time.
I don’t know, but my electric bill is certainly painful.
I try not too think about it 😬
I would guess everything together is around 800 Watts
55W idle for 3 servers, network gear and UPS. I live in the US but electricity is still expensive and I try to keep everything efficient. My primary/most powerful server with 20TB of SSD only uses 22W idle.
200-300w
I’ve got:
R720 w/ 2697v2s, 12 hdds Some Intel 2011 box w/ 2667v2s A custom AM5 server w/ 7700x, 8 hdds An old Cisco enterprise 48 port (&4 SFP+) switch It seems to hover ~800w.
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Mine is ~300w @ 230v most of the day. It varies only on what is being used.
when power fails and i have to switch to generator, the servers stay about the same but I can add about 250w to that for my PC, modem(nbn) etc . (which is why i know this info!)
About 1200w @120v
I have 200 of that at home, the other 1000 is in our data center at work, and I don’t pay for that power. It’ll be rough when I leave some day.
Mine has been idling around 300-400 watts. I’ve recently been making some changes that have it running more than usual. I’m hoping in the next week I will get it back below 300 watt idle. With the space I have and the current cost of solar panels I basically offset the entire labs electric usage with about $800 worth of solar gear. So I haven’t stressed too much about electric use.
What did you get to offset the cost? I’d like to do something but idk where to start looking.
I think I’m at 225 watts.
HP ProLiant us using 125 to 150 mostly, synology nas that consumes about 30, and I think the ubiquity stuff takes about 75 watts
About 70 W for opnsense on a thin client, an Atom Proxmox and fanless 24 port switch. North of 6 kW if I fire up everything.
25w pc with 3 SSDs and idk how much w for rpi running 2nd pihole
Dual Xeon 2640v3, Quadro P2000, 6 mechanical HDDs, 5 SSDs, 8 port LSI HBA.

How did you get that graph
Looks like a graph from a power meter displayed in Home Assistant to me.
100W or so.
- ISP Fiber ONT
- Opnsense box (Optiplex SFF, i5-4570)
- 24 port switch
- Server (HP MT, i5-7500) with 2x SSD, 2x SAS HDD
- Server (Moderro IEC-4660, i3-7100u) with SSD, 2x USB HDD for backups







