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!
Yeah it’s crazy how it all stacks up. Back when I had all my RGB on, 2x pumps, 11 fans, with the monitors on my power draw at idle was almost 200w. Power prices here aren’t great so running my gaming pc 24/7 costs me almost $100 by itself each month. Planning on cutting that down greatly with this new server.
I have my gaming setup almost always on, like 12 hours a day, in fact I was thinking about getting another Lenovo Tiny and doing a hackintosh, and use it for general purpose like watching anime and browsing, but would be a pain having to share all 3 monitors, keyboard and mouse with two system. So, amen, when I build my next gaming PC, I would remove all RGB and go MITX.
