System Power Consumption

Following a question over at unRAID forums, I popped a Watt meter onto the system and have the following readings;

• 250W at boot
• 160W no VMs running, unRAID array spun up
• 120W no VMs running, unRAID array spun down
• 160W VMs running, unRAID array spun up
• 135W VMs running, unRAID array spun down
• 240W Heavy Usage  (2x Live TV  & One recording in progress, 2x Music Zones active, some general data access from array)

The system is averaging around 160W, peaking at 240W. Considering my previous unRAID ran at a constant 160W for data storage only, I'm pretty happy with this as I've folded in at least two additional machines to this rig.

Virtual Machines running on unRAID 6