How Does Your Personal Data Center Measure Up?

tachijuan asks: "My job allows me too meet many technically inclined people. Invariably we get to talking about our home setups. I've run across some very sophisticated setups. Some people I've met have enough computing and storage resources to have themselves classified as large data centers. They run this at home, and usually just for the hell of it. How do the setups of Slashdot readers measure up?" How many pieces of networked digital equipment do you have at home? "Here's a description of mine:

1. 1 x RedHat 9 quad processor PIII Xeon web server+other general duties stuff
2. 1 x FC3 router/VPN server
3. 1 x Astaro secure unix firewall/external router
4. 1 x FC3 email ( http://zimbra.com/ ) server + backup server
5. 1 x Mac G3 OSX 10.3.9 print server
6. 1 x WinXP print server/general use machine
7. 1 x WinXP general purpose home machine + TIVO media center server
8. 1 x UltraSparc 10, Solaris 9, play machine + web server
9. 2 x WinXP laptops
10. 1 x Apple PowerBook 17"
11. 1 x NetApp 630 with 1.1TB of disk serving both NFS and CIFS
12. 2 x external USB 200GB drives for backups of main data in NetApp DCF
13. 3 x inkjet printers scattered around the house
14. 1 x 8 port GigE main DCF backbone switch
15. 1 x 32 port Etherport III main home network switch
16. 1 x WRT54G switch providing high speed network for interal home use
17. 1 x befw11s4 switch + range extender for slow-speed, high range, general home use
18. 1 x TIVO!
19. 4 x spare machines laying around waiting to be purposed

By the standards of some of the people I've run accross, this is not much. To my non-techie friends, this seems either extravagant, puzzling, or both."

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[__aaclcg7560]

According to my electric bills, I'm using 9KWh per day. That seems to be the U.S. average. I have five machines but only two that run continuously, the various assortments of wall warts and a 25-gallon fish tank (home of a 3-inch firemouth, 3-inch pictus catfish and six tiger barbs). As I rebuild my machines, I'm keeping an eye on reducing the energy consumption as much possible. Even though I'm an uber-geek, I find reading the electric bill to be very confusing.

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[jm92956n]

According to the page you linked, the average cost per KWh is approximately 9 cents (and I, as a lucky New Yorker, pay almost 24 cents). The average consumption is much higher. According to this page, the average usage per year is 10,215 KWh per year, or roughly 28 per day .. thus, if you're using only 9 per day, you're significantly below the national average. According to my electric bill, I use 3 KWh per day.