Reduce power consumption with powertop
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Powertop is an Intel tool (yes, works for AMD, too) to check power consumption states of sata, pcie, usb, etc devices. You can download powertop as follows, then restart your server and it will be automatically installed:
mkdir /boot/extra
cd /boot/extra
wget https://github.com/mgutt/unraid-packages/raw/main/6.11.0/powertop-2.15-x86_64-1.txz
Then open your terminal and execute:
powertop
Now press "TAB" until you reach "Idle Sta
Yes only SATA. No SAS etc cards.
I used to have a SAS card, can't remember which Highpoint card it was. A few years ago I used to have 8 odd 4TB drives hanging off it. Since upgrading to four 14TBs thus being able to ditch the card to only use internal SATA ports, I remember dropping a good 5W if not more when I removed it.
Minecraft/Windows VMs are probably way more intensive. As powertop shows for cores 4/5, they are isolated and only used by my O