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BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 1 month agoI’ve found the disks hurt my power less than choosing a good motherboard/cpu, and using M2 for the OS drive.
Using it drives up power. At idle, my latest 5-drive setup draws 20 watts, it goes up when I’m copying files to it (usually syncing media files from 2 other local storages).
Compared to my old system which was an ancient gaming rig that drew 120w at idle, with only 2 drives (OS and storage).
rambos@lemm.ee 1 month ago
That’s super low. What drives do you have? Are your drives spinning down?
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 1 month ago
It’s a mix of crap I’ve acquired over the years, all 1TB drives, 3.5",most 5-10 years old, in an old Drobo. Yea, it’s a massive risk, but it’s one of 3 storage systems replicating data locally, plus a Crashplan backup.
Since it’s 5 drives, I’m pretty sure it spins them down - at best if they drew 3w each, it’d be 15w in drives alone.
Running it on a smart switch, I’ve never seen it draw more than 30w, and that’s at boot time with 5 drives.
My 3-drive Proxmox box (a Dell SFF) drives are a mix of spinning metal and SSD (2.5"), it idles about 20w, peaks at 100w when I’m converting video files with a VM. That hardware is about 5 years old too, 32gb of ram, booting from an M2 drive.