February 21, 201412 yr Hi I was wondering who is running their server 24/7? I turn mine on every evening (around 5:00/6:00pm), and it shuts down automatically at midnight But I wonder if it would be better to leave it on 24/7......?
February 21, 201412 yr last record for me was 65 days, and that because i jacked mine up and need to reboot
February 21, 201412 yr I've been running mine 24/7 for almost 2 years now.. only reboots are when I've upgraded to a new version.
February 21, 201412 yr got you beat there :-) my unraid have been chugging along for almost 2 years except for 2 power failures and a PSU swap (needed better PSU for my new setup)
February 21, 201412 yr Mine runs 24/7/365. It's on a battery backup and only goes down for hardware maintenance.
February 21, 201412 yr Hi I was wondering who is running their server 24/7? I turn mine on every evening (around 5:00/6:00pm), and it shuts down automatically at midnight But I wonder if it would be better to leave it on 24/7......? why do you shut it off?
February 21, 201412 yr I turn mine on (or my wife does) at 4 or 5 pm and it shuts down at 12:30 AM. Been doing that since 2010. I guess there are pros and cons to both running 24/7 and shutting down every night. One pro to shutting it down is less cost for electricity.
February 21, 201412 yr I turn mine on (or my wife does) at 4 or 5 pm and it shuts down at 12:30 AM. Been doing that since 2010. I guess there are pros and cons to both running 24/7 and shutting down every night. One pro to shutting it down is less cost for electricity. To me unless you are running server level equipment like redundant power supply, high speed fans and have a rack. you're not saving much power. I think the 4 satellite receivers i have use as much power as my unraid
February 21, 201412 yr Author Hi I was wondering who is running their server 24/7? I turn mine on every evening (around 5:00/6:00pm), and it shuts down automatically at midnight But I wonder if it would be better to leave it on 24/7......? why do you shut it off? To save on electricity bill (but I should check how much I really save) and maybe have a better life span if the hardware is not running permanently when I know I don't use it.... But sometimes, it doesn't boot properly and I have to restart it a 2nd time
February 21, 201412 yr My video server is never turned off except when the UPS control software turns it off due to an extended power failure, or if I need to replace a drive or update the software. Last time it turned off, the uptime was 358 days. I suspect it's been off perhaps 6-7 times in the past 5 years. As for the cost of keeping it on 24/7 ... my video server idles at about 65w, so it uses about 569kwh/year => a cost of $$68.33 at the $0.12/kwh we pay. Considering about a third of that time it would be on anyway, that means I'm spending ~ $45/year extra to just leave it on. My newer backup server is on a much more efficient Atom-based board, and only draws 19w at idle. So it only costs ~ $20/year to leave it on 24/7. Clearly your actual cost depends on your power cost (US average is $0.12/kwh, and that's almost exactly what our cost is) ... and on the idle power consumption of your server (easy to measure with a Kill-a-Watt.
February 21, 201412 yr Author I will try with a kill a watt My setup is based on an AMD Sempron LE-1100 (45 Watts) What Atom plateform do you use exactly?
February 21, 201412 yr Hi I was wondering who is running their server 24/7? I turn mine on every evening (around 5:00/6:00pm), and it shuts down automatically at midnight But I wonder if it would be better to leave it on 24/7......? why do you shut it off? To save on electricity bill (but I should check how much I really save) and maybe have a better life span if the hardware is not running permanently when I know I don't use it.... But sometimes, it doesn't boot properly and I have to restart it a 2nd time on hardware life span , i think you wear it out more if you turn off and turn it on then if its always running. Like you use more gas starting/stopping your car constantly.
February 21, 201412 yr What Atom plateform do you use exactly? A SuperMicro X7SPA-D525 board. i think you wear it out more if you turn off and turn it on then if its always running. Like you use more gas starting/stopping your car constantly. Not true. The more restrictive attribute in modern drives is the number of spinup cycles ... and since the drives are spun down most of the time, they're still subject to that whether or not the system is powered down. By the way, it's a myth that you'll use more gas by turning your car off when not needed. Note that all hybrids do this all the time ... and they get by far the best gas mileage of any other car (I get ~ 46mpg in my Prius). It's just not convenient to do this with a regular car, since they don't have the high-tech starting systems that the hybrids do.
February 22, 201412 yr Author I guess that's a very good card, but I would be looking for something cheaper.....!!! Like this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138393 Or even this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813135364 but it only has 2 sata ports I'd like to build a new server based on Unraid 5.05, 4Tb drives and a case like that one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811165213 or this one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811219042
February 22, 201412 yr Lots of choices ... you just need to decide what you need. For a basic server, I wanted 6 ports and very low power consumption. My X7SPA idles at under 20 watts, and has been absolutely rock solid. Relative to the total cost of a well-populated server, a few $$ difference in the motherboard cost simply doesn't matter (at least not to me).
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