May 19, 20188 yr Hi all, i have been using Unraid for several years, I have two servers, one which serves as a backup to the main server. The main server which runs 24/7 has 20 drives and has a Corsair 1100 watt PSU (I think). I have been considering purchasing a Synology 8 bay NAS as a replacement to the main server (which even though I have 20 drives at 92tb, it is at 52% used). The synology would run Sonarr and back up weekly to the current main server. Would I see tangible savings on power consumption with the Synology? I live in California, so power is expensive :) . Thoughts? Patrick McC
May 19, 20188 yr Would you be able to spec out your "main server"? That way we know what hardware your running. A Kill-a-Watt meter could give you a look at what your actual wattage draw is. For comparison, I've got a 800W power supply, but only pull 189 watts during most daily tasks. I believe my TVS-871 was around 115-130W with eight 6TB Red's in it. But with that said, completely different hardware... There's a possibility you could reduce your power consumption... Just depends in your hardware and storage requirements are.
May 19, 20188 yr Author So I have my specs shown below. M/B: ASRock - Z97 Extreme4 CPU: Intel® Core™ i5-4590 CPU @ 3.30GHz HVM: Enabled IOMMU: Enabled Cache: 256 kB, 1024 kB, 6144 kB Memory: 16 GB (max. installable capacity 32 GB)
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