I've got an old PowerEdge tower server sitting in my basement that I picked up for $300 on eBay. Dual 6-core Xeons. It's running probably 7 Ubuntu VM's in Hyper-V and not even breaking a sweat. Still need to get the GPU passthrough for Jellyfin configured though.

[–] kbotc@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Eating $70 in power a month.

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It might if it were really working hard but at idle it draws around 160 watts.

Edit: I was close. 140 watts.

[–] boeman@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My power edge R630 was eating way too much power... It's off and being replaced with a second consumer grade PC to be my second host.

I don't really have anything that takes enough clocks to justify that pig of a machine.

[–] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Wait, we're supposed to justify getting new servers? You don't just hoard them like blank notebooks?

[–] boeman@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Well, I was... But dual 700w power supplies running a whole lot of VMs was a bit too much power draw.

[–] lemming741@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

My 5700g proxmox host, switches, access points, and modem use 120 watts according to my UPS. That's $10/month in my $0.12/kWh geographical area.

[–] luckystarr@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

How much power does this thing draw?