Home Server Electric Bill

[Ghost001]

Budget (including currency): 10-30$ USD

Country: US

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Home Server via TrueNas

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 80 Plus Gold Thermaltake 600 watt PSU.

 

I have a high electric bill of $0.19 per kWh. My question is what will my electric bill look like per year? I plan on having 4 1tb drives in a software raid.
 I have a 12th gen i5, an Asus mobo of some kind. (It was given to me for free), and a rx 580 GPU, Thermaltake TR2 600 W ATX Power Supply.
I plan on using it for VMS, NAS, and DNS Caching

 

 

[BillBill]

3 minutes ago, Ghost001 said:

Budget (including currency): 10-30$ USD

Country: US

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Home Server via TrueNas

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 80 Plus Gold Thermaltake 600 watt PSU.

 

I have a high electric bill of $0.19 per kWh. My question is what will my electric bill look like per year? I plan on having 4 1tb drives in a software raid.
 I have a 12th gen i5, an Asus mobo of some kind. (It was given to me for free), and a rx 580 GPU, Thermaltake TR2 600 W ATX Power Supply.
I plan on using it for VMS, NAS, and DNS Caching

 

 

You can use a electricity usage monitor that plugs into a regular wall socket then you plug the PC into that. 

[OhioYJ]

18 minutes ago, Ghost001 said:

I have a high electric bill of $0.19 per kWh. My question is what will my electric bill look like per year?

Not exactly the same, but last time I measured mine (this link should jump to my post):

 

I know I don't leave my NAS on all the time, it's just plain not needed. I fire it up once  month of so when needed, back up to it, run a scrub, and shut it off when I'm done. No reason for it to run 24/7.

[brob]

7 minutes ago, Ghost001 said:

Budget (including currency): 10-30$ USD

Country: US

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Home Server via TrueNas

Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): 80 Plus Gold Thermaltake 600 watt PSU.

 

I have a high electric bill of $0.19 per kWh. My question is what will my electric bill look like per year? I plan on having 4 1tb drives in a software raid.
 I have a 12th gen i5, an Asus mobo of some kind. (It was given to me for free), and a rx 580 GPU, Thermaltake TR2 600 W ATX Power Supply.
I plan on using it for VMS, NAS, and DNS Caching

 

 

 

Did you not post this question a day or two ago?

 

No one can really answer with any specificity.

 

If you want to save on electrical usage:

• Use fewer HDD.
• The Thermaltake TR2 600 W an 80+ Bronze PSU, not 80+ Gold. Ideally use an 80+ Platinum or better as lower power draws are more efficient.
• Configure the system to turn off components when not needed.
• See if you can undervolt the CPU without affecting stability.
• Use the iGPU if it exists and don't install the RX 580.
• Use PWM case fans so they can be run at low RPM when possible.

 

[manikyath]

52 minutes ago, Ghost001 said:

of $0.19 per kWh

that's cute...

 

having that said.. it largely depends on how much you load it, how low the idles really get, how efficient that PSU is at idle (below 20% load there realisticly is no efficiency demand in the 80+ specification), etc etc.

one piece of advice i *can* give... is dont run that GPU in the build if you dont plan to use GPU acceleration.

 

but, largely, in order of magnitude, you should be staying below $100 per year.