teedub 0 Posted September 30, 2020 Share Posted September 30, 2020 The power supply on my ancient server just bit the bullet, so I'm using it as an exuse to start from afresh. The server is mainly used for Plex, NAS and home automation, so well need to be available 24/7. However I don't want to break the bank in running costs, so am looking for a build that will maybe idle around 40W. I'm finding it hard to find decent idle power consumption for various systems, so my question is: What CPU and components are you rocking, and what is your idle/average power consumption? Quote Link to post
Tom3 4 Posted September 30, 2020 Share Posted September 30, 2020 Using a Xeon D-1541 (8 core / 16 thread) 2.1 GHz, motherboard is Supermicro X10SDV-TLN4F. Idle power runs between 21 and 25 watts. 32G ECC RAM, NVMe Cache. 1 Quote Link to post
Dase 2 Posted September 30, 2020 Share Posted September 30, 2020 I idle at 65 watts, but that's with two drives always spun up, a parity drive and a torrent/download drive, and 13 more on standby. I also have two drive controllers, a Dell Perc H310 and a Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8. Each of these draws around 10 watts on its own I've noticed. System specs: M/B: ASRockRack E3C246D4U CPU: Intel® Xeon® E-2288G CPU @ 3.70GHz Memory: 32 GiB DDR4 Single-bit ECC Quote Link to post
teedub 0 Posted September 30, 2020 Author Share Posted September 30, 2020 1 hour ago, Tom3 said: Using a Xeon D-1541 (8 core / 16 thread) 2.1 GHz, motherboard is Supermicro X10SDV-TLN4F. Idle power runs between 21 and 25 watts. 32G ECC RAM, NVMe Cache. Wow, that's really nice. So if I look somewhere around the 50W TDP mark I could expect something sub 30W on idle Quote Link to post
jonathanm 1157 Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 6 hours ago, teedub said: Wow, that's really nice. So if I look somewhere around the 50W TDP mark I could expect something sub 30W on idle I haven't been following the discussion, but idle and TDP really have nothing to do with each other. TDP is a design spec that determines how much heat sink mass, airflow and overall heat rejection must be accounted for. Two processors from the same die family, one with limited TDP, both will idle at nearly identical power. The difference at full load will be significant, with the low power model throttled back to reduce the amount of work done so it doesn't need as much cooling. However, it will take much longer to complete the same task. During that time, the rest of the system will still be running at full power, so the net effect is that a low TDP processor may actually take more power over the long term with the tradeoff being much lower peak draw. Laptops are a good candidate for low TDP, servers, not so much. Quote Link to post
Morrtin 3 Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 System specs: M/B: Gigabyte H370M DS3H CPU: Intel Pentium Gold G5400 Memory: 16 GiB DDR4 Storage: 8x HDD, 2xSSD (Cache) Expansions: InLine 18419 SATA-Controller, Asus XG-C100C 10G All HDD running: 74-84W All HDD down (normal status): 40-50W Quote Link to post
1812 355 Posted October 2, 2020 Share Posted October 2, 2020 I think I win... or lose... overnight "idle" low is about 217 watts. But it's never really at idle.That includes: 2 8 core processors (32 threads) 128 GB ram 5 disk main array in various states of spun up and down 7 disk backup pool spun down 2 SSD cache up 4 SSD pool up 1 vm running with 2 rx580's and some various dockers contributing to a few watts here and there. Quote Link to post
pulpfxn 0 Posted October 6, 2020 Share Posted October 6, 2020 System specs: M/B: Asus Z170-A CPU: Intel Core i7 7700 Memory: 16 GiB DDR4 Storage: 5x HDD, 1xSSD (Cache) Expansions: Dell H310 Parity check: 78-82W All HDDs spun down: approx. 50W S3 sleep (roughly 67% of the time, but can often stretch to 2-3 days): 16W (not sure how accurate my power meter is for sleep. I think it should be less) Don't use any dockers or VMs which need to be on 24/7. Via WOL, server wakes up and is ready to stream in about 20 seconds or so, which is good enough for me (my old N54L, which does not support S3, was closer to 3 minutes). Due to frequent power outages I have battery backup for the house, so every watt saved helps to extend battery life. To save more power I really should shut down the server more often, but it would take longer to start up and the drives would spin up on every start up (they remain idle when server resumes from sleep). Using a NUC to evaluate Home Assistant. Would probably keep using that (or similar) for home automation. @Morrtin thanks for your nice format. Quote Link to post
Ranmacanada 0 Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 The UPS tells me I am at 164 watts, with an E5-2670 that has 14 drives. I also have the router and my switch on the same UPS, so my actual idle is lower. Quote Link to post
doobyns 3 Posted October 21, 2020 Share Posted October 21, 2020 (edited) System details : Model: Custom M/B: ASRock B450 Gaming-ITX/ac Version - s/n: M80-D5009300599 BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. Version P1.70. Dated: 12/17/2018 CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight-Core @ 3700 MHz HVM: Enabled IOMMU: Enabled Cache: 768 KiB, 4096 KiB, 16384 KiB Memory: 32 GiB DDR4 (max. installable capacity 256 GiB) Network: bond0: fault-tolerance (active-backup), mtu 1500 eth0: 1000 Mbps, full duplex, mtu 1500 Kernel: Linux 5.8.13-Unraid x86_64 OpenSSL: 1.1.1h GPU: Nvidia QUADRO P2200 Storage: Array of 2xSSD ATA A400 KINGSTON 480Gb, Cache 1xSSD NVME A2000 KINGSTON My UPS show idle at 67 Watts, but there's also an ubiquiti 5-Port TOUGHSwitch PoE on the same UPS (this switch deliver power to two other switches via POE), so i think my idle is less... i adjusted the RYZEN TDP to 35 Watts in the bios, and i'm using a script to enable nvidia persistence mode, it may help to reduce consumption... Edited October 21, 2020 by doobyns Quote Link to post
Zonediver 57 Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 (edited) S3-Sleep .... 4W Boot (peak 2sek) .... 220W No-Load all HDDs OFF .... 49W Full-Load all HDDs OFF .... 88W No-Load all HDDs ON .... 93W Full-Load all HDDs ON .... 131W Parity-Check .... ~ 120W Transcoding 1x 720p .... ~ 65W Transcoding 2x 720p .... ~ 80W Edited October 22, 2020 by Zonediver Quote Link to post
Groy 0 Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 (edited) Hi I used to have a Dell 3050 micro i3 7100T with SSD and 20gb of ram as a server. 12w at idle. it's fast (at least for my needs), cheap if used, gigabit ethernet, 6 usb 3.0, ultra small, cool now a changed for a ryzen 3600 (I regreted with 60w+ at idle and not noticing signifcant performance except for videogames). the only downside is it's crappy UHD 630 graphics, maybe a problem with plex Edited January 13 by Groy grammar Quote Link to post
harm 0 Posted Sunday at 10:50 AM Share Posted Sunday at 10:50 AM i3-9100 16Gb 2 x 4Tb 2 x 1TB SSD 4 x USB (zWave, Zigbee, RFlink, smart-meter) 1 x USB boot device Active Dockers: Postgres MariaDB HomeAssistant PiHole MQTT Deconz OtMonitor DSMRreader Nextcloud 8.5W average Quote Link to post
CS01-HS 28 Posted Sunday at 01:48 PM Share Posted Sunday at 01:48 PM On 1/13/2021 at 2:10 PM, Groy said: the only downside is it's crappy UHD 630 graphics, maybe a problem with plex Crappy? Quote Link to post
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