What's your Power Consumption?

[teamhood]

Hey all,

 

As I am in the process of specifying new hardware for a 24 drive system and with purchasing my first Kill-a-watt meter, I was hoping that we could all post some figures to get an idea what current hardware/hard drives are producing in terms of power consumption. I want to build the lowest power 24 drive system I can... Yes, 24 drive and low power sounds like an oxymoron, but I don't want my windmill and solar panels to 'blow a fuse'  

 

I figured we ought to create an outline like all good threads on this forum use:

 

[b]OS at time of building:[/b] 
[b]CPU:[/b] 
[b]Motherboard:[/b] 
[b]RAM:[/b] 
[b]Case:[/b] 
[b]Drive Cage(s):[/b] 
[b]Power Supply:[/b] 
[b]SATA Expansion Card(s):[/b]
[b]Fans:[/b] 

[b]Total # of Drives:[/b] 
[b]Total # of ‘Green’ Drives :[/b] 
[b]Total Drive Capacity:[/b] 

[b]Boot (peak):[/b]
[b]Idle – drive spun down(avg):[/b]
[b]Parity Check(avg):[/b]
[b]Light use (avg):[/b]

 

[teamhood]

OS at time of building: unRAID 5.0 beta2

CPU: Intel Celeron E1200 @ 1.6GHz

Motherboard: ABIT AB9 Pro

RAM: OCZ Platinum 2x 1GB DDR2 PC6400

Case: Cooler Master Stacker

Drive Cage(s): 1x SuperMicro 5-in-3, 2x Athena Power 5-in-3

Power Supply: PC Power and Cooling S61EPS 610W

SATA Expansion Card(s): 1x SuperMicro AOC-SASLP-MV8

Fans: 1x Cooler Master exhaust fan

 

Total # of Drives: 7

Total # of ‘Green’ Drives : 4x WD

Total Drive Capacity: 6.5TB

 

Boot (peak): 135 W

Idle – drive spun down(avg): 70 W

Parity Check(avg): 124 W

Light use (avg): 85 W

 

[teamhood]

OS at time of building: unRAID 4.7 Final

CPU:  1 x 2.8GHZ / 2M Cache XEON CPU – LV  

Motherboard:  X6DHE-XG2 Motherboard

RAM: 4GB ECC REG PC3200 DDR2 Memory

Case: SuperMicro CSE-933T-R760B 3U Chassis

Drive Cage(s): 3x SuperMicro 5-in-3

Power Supply:  3 x HOT PLUG Power Supplies 760W?

SATA Expansion Card(s): 2 x 8 Port SATA Controllers AOC-SAT2-MV8

Fans: 4x 120m Cooler Master Blademaster & 2x 80m Cooler Master Blademaster (non-stock)

 

Total # of Drives: 15

Total # of ‘Green’ Drives : 10x WD EARS

Total Drive Capacity: 24.5TB

 

Boot (peak): 280 W

Idle – drive spun down(avg): 173 W

Parity Check(avg): 315 W

Light use (avg): 200 W

 

[S80_UK]

Small guy here...

 

OS at time of building: unRAID 4.7 Final

CPU:  1.66GHZ Dual core Atom D510 (mini-itx)

Motherboard:  Gigabyte GA-D510UD

RAM: 2GB 800MHz DDR2 Memory

Case: Proprietary

Drive Cage(s): Proprietary

Power Supply:  Corsair Builder series CX-430

SATA Expansion Card(s):  4 Port SIL-3114 PCI card

Fans: 1 x 120mm  - Noctua NF-P12 fan (quiet) (+ fan in PSU)

 

Total # of Drives: 7

Total # of ‘Green’ Drives : 6 x WD20EARS 1 x WD10EADS

Total Drive Capacity: 10 TB data + 2TB parity + 1 TB cache

 

Boot (peak): 110 W

Idle – drive spun down(avg): 36 W

Parity Check(avg): 65 W

Light use (avg): 45 W

 

Extras: UPS - APC Back-UPS 800 (adds 8 watts to above figures when batteries fully charged, more when charging)

 

Edited to correct power figures (was from memory previously)

[ArliePancoast]

Hey all,

 

As I am in the process of specifying new hardware for a 24 drive solar kits system and with purchasing my first Kill-a-watt meter, I was hoping that we could all post some figures to get an idea what current hardware/hard drives are producing in terms of power consumption. I want to build the lowest power 24 drive system I can... Yes, 24 drive and low power sounds like an oxymoron, but I don't want my windmill and solar panels to 'blow a fuse' 

 

I figured we ought to create an outline like all good threads on this forum use:

 

[b]OS at time of building:[/b] 
[b]CPU:[/b] 
[b]Motherboard:[/b] 
[b]RAM:[/b] 
[b]Case:[/b] 
[b]Drive Cage(s):[/b] 
[b]Power Supply:[/b] 
[b]SATA Expansion Card(s):[/b]
[b]Fans:[/b] 

[b]Total # of Drives:[/b] 
[b]Total # of ‘Green’ Drives :[/b] 
[b]Total Drive Capacity:[/b] 

[b]Boot (peak):[/b]
[b]Idle – drive spun down(avg):[/b]
[b]Parity Check(avg):[/b]
[b]Light use (avg):[/b]

 

Hello friend I know thread is bit old but were you able to build such an 24 drive system? It seems very exciting to me so can you provide some information? Waiting for reply thanks in advance:)

[mrow]

Hey all,

 

As I am in the process of specifying new hardware for a 24 drive system and with purchasing my first Kill-a-watt meter, I was hoping that we could all post some figures to get an idea what current hardware/hard drives are producing in terms of power consumption. I want to build the lowest power 24 drive system I can... Yes, 24 drive and low power sounds like an oxymoron, but I don't want my windmill and solar panels to 'blow a fuse' 

 

I figured we ought to create an outline like all good threads on this forum use:

 

[b]OS at time of building:[/b] 
[b]CPU:[/b] 
[b]Motherboard:[/b] 
[b]RAM:[/b] 
[b]Case:[/b] 
[b]Drive Cage(s):[/b] 
[b]Power Supply:[/b] 
[b]SATA Expansion Card(s):[/b]
[b]Fans:[/b] 

[b]Total # of Drives:[/b] 
[b]Total # of ‘Green’ Drives :[/b] 
[b]Total Drive Capacity:[/b] 

[b]Boot (peak):[/b]
[b]Idle – drive spun down(avg):[/b]
[b]Parity Check(avg):[/b]
[b]Light use (avg):[/b]

 

Hello friend I know thread is bit old but were you able to build such an 24 drive system? It seems very exciting to me so can you provide some information? Waiting for reply thanks in advance:)

 

 

Would it even matter? The hardware would be three years out of date. You're better off just creating a new thread and asking for advice on low power hardware.

[garycase]

Agree any feedback from 3 years ago is not likely to be useful.

 

You might get some useful info from this thread, which is less than a year old:

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=27460.0

 

While you couldn't build a 24 drive system (unless you used a port multiplier), you could build a 20 drive system with this very nice little board and an 8-port PCIe x8 controller card:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813157475

From the reviews I've read, the board draws less than 30w when idle (no drives spinning).  You'd have to add the idle draw of the PCIe x8 SATA card you added, but I'd still expect a 20 drive system to idle under 60w with this combination.    A port multiplier would let you expand to 24 drives with a small additional wattage draw.

 

Of course 24 drives all spun up will add ~ 100w, assuming you're using low-power drives.  They'll also draw ~ 10 watts when all are spun down.  [These numbers are based on WD Reds]

 

So ... it's reasonable to assume you could build a 24 drive system that drew in the neighborhood of 60 watts when idle (drives spun down); probably 70w in typical use (1 or 2 drives spun up); and about 160 watts during parity checks, rebuilds, or while booting -- when all drives were spun up.

 

I doubt you can do any better than that.

 

 

[garycase]

Note:  You could actually build a 24 drive system without a port multiplier if you used a 12 drive controller ... something like this:  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816115059

 

[bagican]

My Unraid NAS is minimalistic, fanless, SSD only Odroid H3:

 

HW: Odroid H3 (Intel N5105, Turbo disabled)

RAM: 1x 16GB DDR4 Crucial 3200

SSD (cache): 1x 2TB m.2 Samsung 980 Pro

SSD (pool): 2x 4TB Samsung 860 EVO

USB (boot): 16GB Transcend JetFlash 180I (SLC-mode, ECC, industrial-grade)

USB (array): 64GB USB2 ADATA Flash Drive (dummy array, only to bypass unraid requirements)

 

 - running 2-4 dockers

and idle power consumption is now:

Spoiler

 

 

⚡️ 2.5 — 6 W - ️on the DC side

~ 4 Wh is average on the AC side (measured by Shelly 1PM)

 

update: after upgrade to unraid 6.12.8:

Spoiler

and also change 12V power supply to 19V

 

 - with running couple of dockers:

root@unr:~# /etc/rc.d/rc.docker status
status of dockerd: running
running containers: immich_redis immich immich_postgres14 Gladys-Assistant scrutiny PortainerCI

 

Edited February 16 by bagican

[bagican]

On 2/16/2024 at 2:56 PM, bagican said:

My Unraid NAS is minimalistic, fanless, SSD only Odroid H3:

 

HW: Odroid H3 (Intel N5105, Turbo disabled)

RAM: 1x 16GB DDR4 Crucial 3200

SSD (cache): 1x 2TB m.2 Samsung 980 Pro

SSD (pool): 2x 4TB Samsung 860 EVO

USB (boot): 16GB Transcend JetFlash 180I (SLC-mode, ECC, industrial-grade)

USB (array): 64GB USB2 ADATA Flash Drive (dummy array, only to bypass unraid requirements)

...

⚡️ 2.5 — 6 W - ️on the DC side

~ 4 Wh is average on the AC side (measured by Shelly 1PM)

 

 

update to v6.12.10

• ⚡️ 3.5 — 4.5 W idle - ️on the AC side (measured by Shelly 1PM)

 

 

 

Spoiler

powertop -C &> /dev/null && cat powertop.csv | head -n 42

____________________________________________________________________
 *  *  *   Processor Idle State Report   *  *  *

Package;0
C2 (pc2);  4.7%
C3 (pc3);  0.0%
C6 (pc6);  0.0%
C7 (pc7);  0.6%
C8 (pc8);  0.0%
C9 (pc9);  0.0%
C10 (pc10); 83.3%

 

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update:

 

Edited April 15 by bagican