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!

  • unevoljitelj@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Probably around 80w, maybe 90. But lets say 80. 802430=57kilowats a month… Rpi with hdd wont draw more then 15w, maybe 10-12w. So thats about 8-10kilwats a month. So basicaly about 6 times more electricity.