[What's your idle power consumption?]

11 hours ago, Alex.b said:

I updated my server :

- i5-10400

- 2x8 GB 3200Mhz

- BeQuiet Gold psu

- 2x8 Tb

- 3 SSD

 

With HDD spin off, I'm at 32W, 10 more watts than my previous build, but with a 3x more powerful.

What hdd? What mobo?

[What's your idle power consumption?]

On 7/25/2021 at 10:13 PM, Ver7o said:

- G6400

- H410 itx

- 2x4GB

- nvme cache

- R7 240 GPU

- 1x120mm case fan which is always running

 

My idle consumption is about 20-21W. Without the GPU its about 15-16W. Thats with everything unused turned off and bios tuned for power savings (eg. turned off wifi antennas, bluetooth, onboard sound, turned on pcie aspm...). I'm running the conservative cpu governor as it makes zero difference in power draw but a giant difference in overall speed.

 

 

 

I do not use Plex with transcoding, but if thats your objective even something like G5400/G6400 is plenty powerful for such task and might be closer to your power target then an i3.

 

Cheers

With or without disks?

what disks do you use?

[Server advice needed]

19 minutes ago, trurl said:

Unraid IS NOT RAID. If you have one disk as parity and one disk as data, then parity is effectively a mirror, but with more data disks the difference between Unraid and traditional RAID are more apparent.

 

You could have no parity and both disks as data, but that wouldn't be raid 0, it would just be 2 data disks. Each data disk in Unraid is an independent filesystem. Each file exists completely on one disk. Folders can span disks (user shares).

 

https://wiki.unraid.net/Manual/Overview

Ok I understand, as long as the files are protected it is ok. 

[Server advice needed]

Hi all,

 

I am configuring a nas with 8tb storage (2x8 in raid 0)

I want to have a docker install of my home assistant , 4K transcoding (might be hardware) as a plus

 

i was thinking of i3 10105 as cpu, 2wd red of 8tb, 8-16gb ram, ssd for unraid+docker

 

i would like to have a power consumption comparable to synology nas. Power is getting incredibly expensive around here. So preferably below 20w idle or something. Is that even possible?

I also read people using 2.5 inch hdd’s but they are much slower than red I suppose?

 

what might be a good mainboard for this setting?