I am currently running an RPI 4b+ for a home server.

I was able to obtain a small PC with an i5 4690 in it. It has a 300W Be Quite! PSU and a Gigabyte GA-H97M MOBO. I would like to move my stuff from the RPI to this machine, as it has much more slots for HDDs.

For the sake of argument lets imagine I plug 4x4TB HDDs and 1 500mb SSD for the OS and run an Ubuntu LTS on it.

How much average electricity usage am I facing per month in kW/h? How much more would it be compared to the RPI which now has an external 1 TB HDD attached to it over USB?

Thanks a lot!

  • viper2035@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I optimized a i5 4590 with 16 GB RAM and two 14 TB Seagate drives for power consumption. With spin down the minimum I was able to reach was around 26 W. Way to high for me. I switch to an i3 8100 system and this idles around 10W. At me region I have the invested money back after around 1 year.