Homelab Power Draw: What Your Gear Actually Costs to Run (and How to Cut It)
Most homelabbers can tell you their NAS’s total raw capacity down to the terabyte and argue at length about CPU generations, but ask what the whole rack costs to run for a month and you’ll get a shrug. That’s understandable, electricity is a background cost that never shows up as a single line item the way a drive purchase does, but a lab that runs 24/7/365 adds up in ways a lot of people never actually check. Here’s how to measure it for real, where the draw actually comes from, and what’s worth changing. ...