Comment on Super Power-Efficient ITX Nas CPU/Motherboard?
TCB13@lemmy.world 5 months agoThis seems very suspicious, get a cheap watt metter and test it with that. If it still says 100W I would say there’s something wrong in your CPU, motherboard or software. Not necessarily the CPU, can be the motherboard or simply your Linux is set to run the CPU at full clock all the time.
Btw, I have a Ryzen 5 2600 and that thing goes down to 20W or so.
nopersonalspace@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I specifically had to set things up in the BIOS so that it would never enter any efficient power/sleep states. It’s a bug in the OS I’m using that was forcing me to do it, otherwise the whole thing would lock up on me.
That said, I have some smart-plugs that do power monitoring. I can try hooking up the nas to one of those just for kicks, it should be accurate enough for this sort of thing.
tomten@lemmy.world 5 months ago
There is an issue with ryzen and certain PSUs that when it goes to idle it pulls so little power that the psu thinks it’s off and kills the power, it can appear as a hang. there should be an option in the bios to change it to “typical power” or named something similar.
nopersonalspace@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Oh interesting, that sound plausible. I’ll check out the bios and see if I can find that setting. Thanks!
tomten@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s called power supply idle control, worth a test.
TCB13@lemmy.world 5 months ago
This is most likely why you’re running at 100W all the time. No need to further measure anything. Reset your BIOS to defaults, update the OS and you should be good.
nopersonalspace@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s not that easy sadly. The entire NAS runs on Unraid and the issue is with that OS. I can’t switch without totally restarting from scratch which would be a huge data migration, and a massive PITA configuration-wise.
TCB13@lemmy.world 5 months ago
This kind of issues is why I now run everything on Debian.