MagickPistacho

Hey! 🙂 Yeah, I've already tested that. In fact right now I have two NVMe (Samsung 970 Evo Plus 2TB) connected to the board and consumption with Powertop is about 9-10W still (3 HDDs, 2 NVMes, 1 USB, 3 fans), around 11-12W without it. With Powertop it certainly reaches C10. As for settings, it's been a while so I don't really recall and I can't look at it right now, sorry, but basically followed whatever seemed to be usable for other users and did some trial and error to see which of them affected consumption in a positive way. Hope this helps! I also bought another Gigabyte board and did more testing with both of the, some RAM modules and options, but had several problems with the new one, this works better. My idea was to post the results here, but these past months have been very rough, I'll see if I can manage to post in the near future.

Yeah, these measurements here were without any HDDs on the NAS, all of them disconected. That's why I find it strange that he can reach 4.5W, even with discs connected, and I can only go to 7-8W without HDDs. That information about those Seagate HDDs is very interesting though, totally explains how they can have such low consumption. A pity I'm stuck with my Toshiba's though. I'm gonna try tu upgrade Unraid to the latest version, maybe there's been an upgrade in the kernel, and if that doesn't change anything I'll look some more within the BIOS options.

Well, I've changed my board now to a Gigabyte B660M DS3H DDR4 and the RAM to G.Skill Aegis F4 16GB 2400, and it reaches C10, even with the HDMI connected. Right now it sits at 9-10W on spindown, no HDMI, no keyboard or mouse, WebGUI closed. One disc spinning bumps it up to 13-14W, two around 25-35 it seems. I've tried with no discs and it goes down to about 7-8W, and without SSD and fans it makes little to no difference, 6-7 but sometimes 8 as well. It's not bad but this user here managed to reach 4.5W at idle and 9W with 2 HDDs spinning and the same board, CPU, PSU and RAM: https://www.hardwareluxx.de/community/threads/sparsamer-nas-mediaserver-neuling.1329924/#post-29668608 So I don't know what I'm doing wrong, maybe I need to change some settings on BIOS but I haven't found anything that could do the trick.

A shame, really... but even if with C8 I can reach that low consumption, it would be enough for me. I'll post results once I have the new configuration ready 🙂

Yeah, I already tried my system without HDDs before and the results were the same on Unraid. But I've tried it again on Ubuntu following your suggestion. Same case, C8 max, but now this one's weird: I get 20W on Ubuntu without HDDs and with Powertop auto-tune while I get those 12-13W on Unraid with discs connected. I've already ordered a different mobo (Gigabyte B660M DS3H DDR4, another user managed to get around 5W with it), I'll try to reach C10/lower consumption with that one, we'll see. But the above was for sure not the result I expected! 🤣

Yep, then it seems that's it, my system can't go to C10, I'll have to change the motherboard and try with another one. Bummer, but at least I have some spotted thanks to hardwareluxx. And many thanks for the tips and help My post was misleading, I was comparing Unraid with spun down disks to Ubuntu as is. I thought Unraid used only about 25W while discs were spinning, but it seems that when all 3 are active it can go up to 35W too, so it should be about the same, sorry for the confusion.

Ok, I've managed to install the ssh server and powertop in Ubuntu, and yeah, seems that I can't reach C10... No HDMI and USB cables connected, only power, LAN and the USB stick. I don't know if I should've used a non-GUI mode or anything else to test this, didn't see the option while booting Ubuntu. Even then, while achieving C8 here, it uses about 34W instead of 13 like in UnRAID, is that normal?

Oh, I see. Thanks a lot. I'll have to investigate about installing a ssh server and managing it with Ubuntu, right now I don't know where to start with that, but I'll take a look as soon as I can. In the meantime, if it serves any purpose, I've tried this and everything checks as enabled:

Hi people! New to Unraid, been building my first NAS and following what I could with PowerTop. My system is as follows: CPU: Intel i3 12100 Board: ASUS ROG STRIX B660-G GAMING WIFI PSU: Corsair RM550x (2021) RAM: 1x16 GB Crucial CT16G56C46U5 5600 MHz (clocked at 3200 in BIOS) 1x Crucial P3 1TB 3x Toshiba N300 8TB And the case is a Nox Hummer Vault As of now, I've managed to have C8 tweking BIOS settings and using --quiet --auto-tune, around 11-13W on idle, 25 while discs are spinning, and about 32-46W on load. Thing is, I can't reach C10 no matter what. I've tried with no HDD and SSD connected, still C8. Different RAM module (CT16G52C42U5, 5200 MHz, granted it's not that different), same result. Dissabling Wifi/Bluetooth on board, same power usage and C states. I don't know what's preventing C10 and lower power consumption, I've seem others with similar systems reach 6-8W on idle or even less. I think I've looked at all BIOS settings but perphaps I've misplaced something, I don't know. Maybe it's the on board LAN? Maybe the board itself? Anyway, thanks for this thread and all the info!