bally12345 Posted December 15, 2018 Share Posted December 15, 2018 This is something that has been bugging me a bit, so I thought I would check to see what others users power consumption looks like and see if whether I can improve anything. I currently have supermicro system with 1200w redundant power supply. Total overkill for me but got a great deal on a refurb system on ebay. Currently it looks I am using around 4.25(KW.h) a day according to the smart plug its connected to. Would be interesting to see what others users are using who run their system 24/7 Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment
Niklas Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 (edited) Specs in signature. Spinning down hdds after 45 min inactivity. About 1.5 kWh the day of parity check. Edited January 14, 2019 by Niklas Quote Link to comment
bally12345 Posted January 14, 2019 Author Share Posted January 14, 2019 37 minutes ago, Niklas said: Specs in signature. Spinning down hdds after 45 min inactivity. About 1.5 kWh the day of parity check. Not seeing signatures for some reason, what are you using to log? Quote Link to comment
Niklas Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 (edited) 4 minutes ago, bally12345 said: Not seeing signatures for some reason, what are you using to log? You don't see them in the mobile version. Using Domoticz and z-wave power plug. Nice graphs and stuff. Edited January 14, 2019 by Niklas Quote Link to comment
bally12345 Posted January 14, 2019 Author Share Posted January 14, 2019 Logged on laptop to see your sig but wasnt there lol might be the theme I am using. Looks like my replies aren't adding my sig either. I will have a look at Domoticz Quote Link to comment
Niklas Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 (edited) I see your signature 😉 make sure that you have it enabled in the settings for your signature. You can turn them off and on there. Unraid OS Plus 6.6.6 MB: Asus P8Z77-V LX (microcode updated). CPU: Intel i5 3570k 3.4 Ghz (Ivy Bridge, 4 cores, no Hyper-Threading). RAM: Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600MHz LP 4x4GB (CML16GX3M4A1600C9) = 16GB. PSU: Corsair TX650W. DRIVES: Parity: 1 x Seagate IronWolf ST4000VN008, 4TB. Data: 3 x Seagate Barracuda ST4000DM004, 4TB 1 x Seagate ST1000DM010, 1TB (unassigned, used as temporary storage). Cache: 2 x Samsung SSD 860 EVO 250GB (RAID1). FS: Cache: Encrypted btrfs. Array: Encrypted xfs. TOTAL STORAGE: 12 TB data, 250GB cache. NETWORK: LAN: 1 Gbps, WAN: 500/100 Mbps (fiber). Router: ASUS RT-AC68U (Asuswrt-Merlin). USED FOR: Dockers and storage. No VMs. POWER CONSUMPTION: 45 - 55w normal use, 98w max during parity check, 1.1 - 1.5 kWh daily. tl;dr Edited January 14, 2019 by Niklas Quote Link to comment
TUMS Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 Drawing just over 200w with all drives spun up at idle. I don't really worry too much about power though. I usually never spin my drives down. Quote Link to comment
bally12345 Posted January 14, 2019 Author Share Posted January 14, 2019 Found the setting and updated my signature, I need to upgrade as I believe my rig is using atleast 8 year old hardware Quote Link to comment
bally12345 Posted January 14, 2019 Author Share Posted January 14, 2019 This is my current usage but don't know how accurate these smart life smart plugs are. Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment
MisterWolfe Posted January 14, 2019 Share Posted January 14, 2019 At idle my server draws 27 watts, or .65 kWh per day. When spun up I've seen it drawing a maximum of 65watts, or 1.65kWh per day. Quote Link to comment
bally12345 Posted January 14, 2019 Author Share Posted January 14, 2019 At idle my server draws 27 watts, or .65 kWh per day. When spun up I've seen it drawing a maximum of 65watts, or 1.65kWh per day. Damn! I need to do something about this, the worst thing is recently noticed 3 plex streams maxing out both cpus.Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment
Fffrank Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 On 1/14/2019 at 11:46 AM, MisterWolfe said: At idle my server draws 27 watts, or .65 kWh per day. When spun up I've seen it drawing a maximum of 65watts, or 1.65kWh per day. That's pretty impressive! I'm pulling ~200watts at idle. But that's with 14 HDDs on an HP G8 server w/ dual x5660s and 96gb of RAM. I don't have a smart plug so I can't tell daily usage, but my PDU never seems to spike above ~240w. Quote Link to comment
bally12345 Posted January 15, 2019 Author Share Posted January 15, 2019 That's pretty impressive! I'm pulling ~200watts at idle. But that's with 14 HDDs on an HP G8 server w/ dual x5660s and 96gb of RAM. I don't have a smart plug so I can't tell daily usage, but my PDU never seems to spike above ~240w.But is that 200w per hour therefore 4.8Kwh per day? Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment
OmgImAlexis Posted January 15, 2019 Share Posted January 15, 2019 R710 - dev machine - ~250w/24/7 R510 - production box - ~200w/24/7 The rest of the power is used by my networking gear. Quote Link to comment
LammeN3rd Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 (edited) Dell Poweredge T630 | unRAID 6.6.6 - Pro 2x E5-2640 V4 | 128GB DDR4 ECC REG PERC H330 12Gbit SAS (HBA Mode) | 18x Hotplug disks with 12Gbit SAS expander Backplane Cache 1920 GB RAID1 | 4x Samsung PM963 960GB NVMe CPU's are on power save profile, this does lower performance but 2x 10 Core Xeon has more than I need anyway and running on lower frequencies increases the perf/watt massively. Allocation method: Most Free Set all disks to 15 min spindown except the last drive in the system (if more than 1 disk is empty exclude that for share) that has no spindown and gets all new data. this keeps the disk with all recent stuff online so only slow spinup's for older stuff. Edited January 16, 2019 by LammeN3rd 1 Quote Link to comment
bally12345 Posted January 16, 2019 Author Share Posted January 16, 2019 Thanks for sharing, I had CPU Scaling Governor: On Demand. I have changed it to power save so will monitor it.I have 12 cores 24 threads but recently Plex has been struggling with 3 streams. So might need to keep an eye on this.Also set disks to spin down after 15mins Sent from my SM-G930F using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment
oneclear Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 All I need, HP Microserver G8, 4x4tb array, no parity, 480gb cache, 1 x 140mm fan, PICO Psu 140w, running Emby, PfSense and File Shares. 50w running all out. Disks down 38w 28w S1 Sleep 14 pennies kw/hr Thank you Frugal Frank 1 Quote Link to comment
gacpac Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 What can you guys recommend me to measure the power of my server?An app for unraid, hardware device to measure. I like to get deep with details too. But for now jist to have an idea. If I get a simple APC UPS would I be able to achieve this?Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment
mikeydk Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 48 minutes ago, gacpac said: What can you guys recommend me to measure the power of my server? An app for unraid, hardware device to measure. I like to get deep with details too. But for now jist to have an idea. If I get a simple APC UPS would I be able to achieve this? Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk The easiest way is probably just to get an UPS that can return load and such. For my server I am just using a cheap Eaton 3S 550VA/300W, it isn't super powerful, but it is plenty to have my server running for almost 15 minutes, and then give my server to do a clean shutdown. Quote Link to comment
gacpac Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 The easiest way is probably just to get an UPS that can return load and such. For my server I am just using a cheap Eaton 3S 550VA/300W, it isn't super powerful, but it is plenty to have my server running for almost 15 minutes, and then give my server to do a clean shutdown.And how do you monitor the usage. I mean, does the unraid GUI give you estimated usage or the UPS has something that tells you? Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment
mikeydk Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 1 minute ago, gacpac said: And how do you monitor the usage. I mean, does the unraid GUI give you estimated usage or the UPS has something that tells you? Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk The GUI tells you load in percentage, from that you can calculate watt, based on what the UPS is rated for. Quote Link to comment
gacpac Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 The GUI tells you load in percentage, from that you can calculate watt, based on what the UPS is rated for.I didn't know that. Thanks so much@mikeydkSent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment
mikeydk Posted January 27, 2019 Share Posted January 27, 2019 40 minutes ago, gacpac said: I didn't know that. Thanks so much@mikeydk Sent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk In 6.7.0-rc2 it looks like this. Quote Link to comment
lixe Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 (edited) My config: ASUS Crosshair Hero VI AMD Ryzen 1700 Sapphire Radeon 7950 (used for VMs) Corsair HX850 PSU 32GB G.Skill Ripjaws V 4x4TB HDD 250 GB SSD Passthrough for macOS/Windows10 VM: 250GB M.2 5port USB PCIE Wifi+BT PCIE Passthrough for pfsense: Intel Quad NIC PCIE Got an smart plug yesterday. Right now it tells me power consumption is about 78watt, HDDs spun down, pfsense VM and dockers running, no MacOS of Windows VM running, CPU usage around 2-4%. Is it too much or does it sound about right? Currently all cores/threads are used by unraid, because when I had isolcpus=4-15 (for my vms) set, the power consumption was 90-100, even though no VM was running, doesn’t make sense for me. Edited January 30, 2019 by lixe Quote Link to comment
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