RESEARCH 》 Power consumption of my Home Lab devices for research

AMD RYZEN 3 1200 - FreeNAS Storage array build

CPU: AMD Ryzen 3 1200 (4 cores/4 threads)

RAM: Corsair Vengeance 8GB DDR4 LPX 2400MHz C16 Kit

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-A320M-HD2 AM44

Graphics/Display: Asus Geforce 210GT 1GB DDR3

PSU: Circle CPH698V12-400

Storage: WDC WD10JPVX-75JC3T0 - WD 1TB HDD

System BIOS 53 watts

Idle System (Linux Ubuntu OS) 52 watts

Casual browsing 53 watts

Youtube video playback 60 watts

Kernel compilation with 4-threads "make -j4" (99% load) 74 watts

Kernel compilation with 3-threads "make -j3" (80% load) 71 watts

My Intel Core i7-5820K - Desktop build

CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K (6 cores/12 threads)

RAM: Corsair PC2800 DDR4 14GB Kit

Motherboard: Gigabyte X99-UD4

Graphics/Display: Asus Geforce 210GT 1GB DDR3

PSU: Corsair VS450

CPU Liquid Cooling system: Cooler Master Nepton 240m

Storage: Transcend TS128GSSD370 128GB SSD

Idle System (Linux Ubuntu OS) 70 watts

System BIOS 90 watts

Linux kernel compilation (80%) load 150 watts

My Intel Celeron CPU 1037U Mini PC WAN Optimization Device

CPU: Intel Celeron CPU 1037U

RAM: DDR3 PC3L 4GB

Storage: Transcend TS128GSSD370 128GB SSD

Idle System (Linux Ubuntu OS) 18-20 watts

System BIOS 16.5 watts

Linux kernel compilation (95%) load 21-24 watts

My HP Envy 15-J111TX Laptop

CPU: Intel Corei7-4700MQ

RAM: DDR3 PC3L 12GB

Storage: WD Blue 250GB Scorpio HDD

Idle System (Linux Ubuntu OS) charging 44 watts

Idle System (Linux Ubuntu OS) charged 15 watts

Poweroff charging 28 watts

Poweroff charged 0.1 watts

Poweron charged suspend 0.75 watts

Linux kernel compilation (95%) load charging 90 watts

Linux kernel compilation (95%) load charged 69 watts

My Dell 15R 5537 Laptop

CPU: Intel Corei7-4500U

RAM: DDR3 PC3L 8GB

Storage: Seagate 320GB Momentus HDD

Idle System (Linux Ubuntu OS) charging 42 watts

Idle System (Linux Ubuntu OS) charged 10 watts

Poweroff charging 29 watts

Poweroff charged 0.1 watts

Poweron charged suspend 0.70 watts

Linux kernel compilation (95%) load charging 60 watts

Linux kernel compilation (95%) load charged 30 watts

My Acer Aspire 4810T Laptop

CPU: Intel Core Solo SU3500 1.4 GHz

RAM: DDR3 PC3 4GB

Storage: WD Blue 250GB Scorpio HDD

* No Battery, so no charging.

Idle System (Linux Manjaro OS) 16.23 watts

System BIOS 24.30 watts

Casual Browsing 22.27 watts

Youtube Playback 22.45 watts

Raspberry Pi2 Device

Powered via 2Amp USB power-supply

Raspbian OS

USB mouse and USB keyboard connected

Casual browsing 2.6 - 3 watts

Youtube video playback (25% load) 3 - 3.5 watts

Kernel compilation with 4-threads "make -j4" (99% load) 3.9 - 4 watts

Kernel compilation with 3-threads "make -j3" 3.67 - 3.75 watts

idle device with no keyboard and no mouse 2.08 - 2.1 watts

NETGEAR RN104 ReadyNAS

2x 2.5'' Laptop HDD drives

2x 3.5'' Desktop HDD drives

Single x-RAID volume with 4 HDD drives

Device off but plugged-in 0.58 watts

Idle device after booting 28 watts

File copy (write operation) 28.7 watts

RAID Volume scrub operation 29.5 watts

APC BX600C-IN UPS - APC Back-UPS 600 (UPS not powered-on but connected to live power socket)

Standby Charging 13.5 watts

Standby not-Charging 7.8 watts

APC BX600CI-IN UPS - APC Back-UPS 600 (UPS not powered-on but connected to live power socket)

Standby Charging 9.5 watts

Standby not-Charging 10-0.9 watts

BenQ LED Monitor 24'' GW2470HM

off plugged-in 0.00 watts

Dim 11.7 watts

LG LCD TV Monitor 23'' M237WA-PT

off plugged-in 0.8 watts

Dim 33 watts

Bright 45 watts

Samsung LCD Monitor 22'' 2243NWX

off plugged-in 0.7 watts

Dim 20 watts

Bright 33.5 watts

Power consumption of my Home Lab devices for research

Here is my power-consumption measurements of various devices deployed within my home lab. I measured via my kill-a-watt sort of power-meter which is fairly reliable and accurate. I checked its accuracy with various standard load such as Philips LED laps and other constant power-consuming devices to make sure that the power-meter is precise.

So far I maintained this data in my personal Google drive spreadsheet documents. But now I thought perhaps its good to share these numbers so that it is useful for various users to access their equipment such as:

decide UPS and battery backup ratings
off-grid solar power installations
choose new upgraded hardware which consumes less power and deliver better performance such as SSD over traditional HDD, new CPU, new Monitor, new laptop, servers, desktops and so on. And discard obsolete old hardware.
choosing the right PSU (power supply unit) for your desktop PC build

Before posting this article I shot a VLOG regarding the same and posted in my Youtube channel The Linux Channel. You can kindly watch the same:

Explore my lab's historical month wise power-usage trends: I started logging my entire lab monthly power-consumption readings. You can read the article HERE.

Off-Grid Solar Power System for Raspberry Pi: When you choose to use your Raspberry Pi device as your IoT based remote weather station or if you are building Linux kernel (like kernel compilation) within the same, you need a good uninterrupted power source (UPS). But if you are using it on site or in some research camping location you can choose to power your Raspberry Pi device with your custom off-grid solar power source. Kindly read my complete article about the same HERE.

Suggested Topics:

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