So ive never really paid attention to the power I consume running various servers over the years but now that ive cleaned up and consolidated im trying to gauge my power draw compared to others.

I run a Proxmox host with 13 HDDs, 6 NVMe drives and 2 U2 NVME drives, a Quattro P2200, RTX A2000, RTX 4070, Epyc CPU, HBA for HDDs, NVMe Card 4x4.

A Synology 2422 with 4SSD, 2 HDDs

A Synology expansion with 8 HDDs

I run about 500 watts off the wall for all this stuff and I think this is the lower end as I wasn’t using the GPUs. That includes a couple switches as well. Very silent runs very cool.

What do other people consume?

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  • audioeptesicus@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    4100 VA or about 2650 W…

    Not including my office setup, that’s just what’s in the rack. MX7000 chassis with 7x MX740c blades, redundant 40G core switches, a fiber channel SAN, two 48-bay NAS with 10TB drives, and 240v power with a 5000W UPS.

    Not including the AC for the garage that the rack is in.

    And no, I am not a masochist.

    • JonohG47@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      How on Zod’s green earth were you able to get your power factor to be that awful?!

      • pseydtonne@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Follow up question: how is your hearing? An actual blade setup would be loud as bombs inside a house.

        • VaguelyInterdasting@alien.topBEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Actually, the MX7000 is not terrible on noise comparatively. Not silent, obviously, but no worse than a typical 1U server.

          Now, having that many compute modules may make that thing loud…

          • audioeptesicus@alien.topBEnglish
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            1 year ago

            Yep. It’s not so bad. I typically only have 4 or so blades powered on at a time, so it’s not so bad. The MX9116N IOMs I have though require more cooling. Had I gone for the lesser ones, it’d probably be a little quieter.