April 1, 20206 yr Hi. I pretty much like the Unraid concept, having NAS, Docker, Gaming VMs to serve the whole family. Hence, I have a Xeon E5-1650 v3 proc, GTX 1080 GPU, apart from the 10 SATA drives for storage, and an nvme cache drive, also used for VMs. When no drives spinning, I use abut 80-85 watts. When Gaming VM is on, about 135-140 watts. When gaming, about 180-190 watts. Then, due to I bought cheap SAS drives, and them not able to spin down, I'm thinking my power will shoot up even higher. No idea how much yet. They haven't arrived. I will be repacing all my sata to sas ones. That will be about 8 SAS, and 2 SATA remaining. Any idea how to keep power low? How low for you is acceptable for a whole year powered on device? I pretty much would like it to be less than 80 watts if possible.
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