Hi everyone,
I did install a new UNRAID Server and can't go below 73 Watts IDLE with disks spun up.
Ryzen 5900x
Gigabyte Aorus B550i AX PRO Mainboard
2x32 GB Kingston ECC RAM
2x Samsung 980PRO 1TB NVME
2x Crucial MX500 1TB SSD
2x Seagate Exos x16 16TB
MSI RTX 3060
2 120mm fans
1 Arctic Liquid Freezer II - 240
600 Watt Power Supply (I remember it was a Be Quiet E6-600, can't see it as it is well built into the tower https://www.comstern.de/gfx90419org/sp_e6_600_DE-1-.pdf)
This is what I did:
installed and ran powertop --> Tunable "Good" now, Idle Stats only show C2
I put Global s-state control to "enabled" and Power Supply IDLE control to "Low current IDLE" so C6 should work.
BIOS is F13 from July 2021.
PCIe ASPM Mode -> "L1 Entry" to save power with the graphics card.
When I reboot the server these plugins are running.
Issue 1 - IDLE consumption:
After reboot with Array spun up: 73 Watts
Turning on Windows 10 VM (as vdisk on one of the NVMEs) with RTX 3060 passthrough --> 80 Watts
Turning of the VM --> 80 Watts (it will not go back to 73 Watts and I thought running the VM will save energy?)
Issue 2 - sleep mode:
When I hit the sleep button, there spins up again right away. I only have wake on LAN in the BIOS which I want to use and keep turned on. I deinstalled the Dynamix Cache Directories Plugin but it did not change the behavior.
What can I do?
Change the 600 Watt Power Supply. I understand that this can be an issue but I only have a 300 Watts power supply Cougar A300 as a substitute and would need an idea what to buy. This seems to be not the only potential here.
Any help is appreciated.
Cheers