| It's a little under $0.12 per kWh here. I haven't gotten around to putting up a meter on it since fully completing it, but in the past, with a bit over half the drives + all of the ram and everything else, it was peaking a bit over 400w -- I'd guess like +- 700ish right now? So, give or take, with a stupid build like mine, here, it's like .7 * 720 * $0.118 = ~$60. Another thing to note is that mine stay spinning instead of idling for much lower energy consumption, cause I've always read that the stop-start cycle is what really tends to kill the drives. I think it could be a lot more affordable/justifiable with: - fewer, larger drives (6-8TB each?) - fewer, larger DIMMs (16-32GB each?) - perhaps slower, more energy-efficient drives (5400rpm?) Also, I have seen some of the Atom C2750/C2758 boards for fairly cheap here. If you don't need an absurd amount of RAM/PCIe/CPU, that could be a good option to save another bit of power. > and my house is poorly oriented for solar panels unfortunately. And yeah, same, unfortunately. Ironically, despite being in Florida, I barely get any sun; my entire neighborhood is filled with massive trees, lol. I'd still like to look into solar at some point when I've got more time & money, though. It's been awful the past couple of hurricane seasons because of the trees -- something always seems to fall and cause a bunch of damage, so I'd like to cut down a few of the scary ones anyway (I am sorry trees!) |