Is there an article that goes with this? or did you find it in an email that started with “Fwd:FWD:RE:Fwd:RE:Re:”?

Help with what, fucking off? I’ll help with that

I watched as everything booted, didn’t pull much more than 150 watts. But it’ll be interesting to see how it goes over time.

FYI - the cluster is pulling 115-140 watts.

• 1x Mac mini 2014, running OMV as a dedicated NAS (i5-4308U, 16GB RAM)
• 4-bay Sabrent DS-SC4B, attached to Mac mini (3x 4TB WD Reds in RAID5, 1x 4TB WD Black as hot spare)
• 1x 8TB WD backup drive (it’s something)
• 2x HP Elitedesk 800 G3 mini (or G4, don’t remember), both running Proxmox (i7-7700T, 32GB RAM each)
• 1x Dell Optiplex 7050 SFF running Proxmox (i7-7700, 32GB RAM)

All running multiple VMs (Docker and other) and LXC containers.

I’m impressed, honestly. I was expecting 200+ watts minimum. It’ll be interesting to see the spikes as it’s used over time. I am going to move the HA server (Lenovo M710q running HAOS on a Pentium G4560T & 4GB RAM) down to the cluster soon, as it’s sitting on my desk at the moment…

Fair.

If that happens, I am getting rid of my iPad Pro. No thanks.

Very cool! However, my house is a rental, so any monitoring equipment has to be somewhat non-invasive.

Edit: it helps if I actually look at the product before spouting nonsense… Looks promising.

I know they’re gonna be a power suck lol. Three mini PCs, a SFF PC, 4-bay hard drive docking station, 8-port switch, and a RPi0w… Hoping for a max of 200W, but I suppose we’ll see what happens 🫤

Perfect, I don’t need to run the fans anymore!

Seriously though - we have 5 kids, and feeding the little shits is expensive, so we freeze a lot of things for storage. I thought for certain the freezers would be power hogs compared to an idling PC, but I was very surprised to be proven wrong.

Next up… Measuring my server cluster 😬