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> My NAS … consuming ~35 kWh/month Translates to 50W.
by nuker 3y ago
> My NAS … consuming ~35 kWh/month
Translates to 50W.
- earthling8118 3y agoThank you. I spent a good few moments trying to wrap my head around this measurement.
- AussieWog93 3y agoHonestly, I thought it made more sense to measure it that way if you're trying to work out the electricity bill.
- 8fingerlouie 3y agoI intentionally wrote the consumption in kWh instead of just Watts. Watts is the energy consumed "right now" (which is the product of Volt x Amps), but needs a time dimension to give a measure of historical consumption, which is where the Watt Hour (Wh) comes into play. While most people are aware that X consumes Y Watts, few consider how much that addes up to over the course of days or weeks. Few people are aware that a simple ethernet switch will roughly consume 1W per plugged in port, so an 8 port switch might consume 8-16W of power just sitting there, so 4-9 kWh/month. My old homelab used to consume around 300W when idle, meaning it was consuming 300 * 24 * 30.5 = 219 kWh/month, and with electricity prices reaching €1/kWh, that suddenly becomes A LOT of money to have a Plex server available 24/7.