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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My current nas sucks down about 120-140w 24/7, so…

Ouch. I'm around 50W, and my HW isn't anything special: Ryzen 1700 + 2 HDDs + 1 SSD.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah it's the drives and the controller for all the drives that are making the power usage what it is. I could replace some of the older drives with a newer one and be able to ditch the smaller drives and controllers, but it seems a waste to do that until they die.

Also, I wouldn't mind ditching for a Sufficient(TM) amount of nvme storage, but SSDs aren't actually getting cheaper and are probably going to do the opposite, so I'll likely end up doing uh, nothing,

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 day ago

You can cycle the smaller drives to cold backup, that's not a waste. You do have backups, which RAID is not, right?