Comment on Super Power-Efficient ITX Nas CPU/Motherboard?
nopersonalspace@lemmy.world 9 months agoI 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.
I specifically had to set things up in the BIOS so that it would never enter any efficient power/sleep states
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.
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.
This kind of issues is why I now run everything on Debian.
Yeah good point. I’ve been slowly working to move away from Unraid for those reasons, and have been having fun trying NixOS.
Anyway, I just made a post on the official support forums so hopefully I can get this looked at. Since I initially had the problems many updates have come out, so maybe it’s not a thing anymore. I just can’t risk testing that for myself!
tomten@lemmy.world 9 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 9 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 9 months ago
It’s called power supply idle control, worth a test.