How much power does your NAS use?

no_1_dave

no_1_dave

no_1_dave

Soldato
Joined
7 Jul 2004
Posts
8,418
Location
Gloucester
Mine is pretty simple and just used as a Plex server. I built it with spare parts I had lying around which I had intended to sell on the MM so it wasn't carefully thought through or anything

i5 8500 for Quicksync
Z790 mATX motherboard
16GB ram
2TB NVME for OS and Plex cache
2x 18TB Western Digital drives shucked from ByBook's or whatever they're called now.
Windows 10

I'm not running raid, I have a couple of USB enclosers separately which has a copy of everything that goes onto Plex. This is to keep the any noise to a minimum and I like the idea of an offline backup.

Now to get to the point of the thread, this setup is using 27w of power continuously, 24/7 and averages 0.71kwh per day
Is this bad? Would it be worth moving this into a proper NAS with some proper thought instead of just something quickly thrown together?

What kind of power usage would I get with a dedicated NAS, designed to be a NAS?
This has been running 24/7 for 3 years now, with just the occasional reboot roughly every 4 or 5 months when I decide to run a Windows update
 
27 watts is nothing. If you think that a spinning HDD is going to use at least 5w, that leaves you with 17w for the rest of the system. Even spending hundreds and hundreds of pounds on a pre-built Synology, you will be talking pennies in terms of power savings.

My first NAS (ok, tbf it was a VMWare ESX box running a bunch of VMs) used to consume about 150w. Some years later and several revisions and I am down to about 45w with a Ryzen 4650GE and a pair of 14TB Toshiba drives, and I don't even give it a second thought. My network switch uses more power than my server.
 
I have Unraid running on an N100 Topton board, 2 * NVME, 3 * 3.5 HDD. Burbles along at 23W with the HDDs all parked and will rise to ~34W when doing stuff that spins some of them up.

I'd hoped it would idle lower but it's good enough for me and the more aggressive power saving measures in Unraid either don't work or have no impact.
 
Ok, that's good. Cheers.
I feel better now.

I was questioning it because I had somebody questioning me on it. You know, the usual "isn't it expensive having a PC running 24/7", "surely that's a waste of money" etc.
Was wondering if there was a better way, but I see it's all good :)
 
no_1_dave said:
Ok, that's good. Cheers.
I feel better now.

I was questioning it because I had somebody questioning me on it. You know, the usual "isn't it expensive having a PC running 24/7", "surely that's a waste of money" etc.
Was wondering if there was a better way, but I see it's all good :)
Click to expand...
0.71kwh per day is only about 15p. £4.50 a month roughly. If you’re worried about £4.50 a month then computing is t the hobby for you ;)
 
CPU - AMD Ryzen 3 3200G
RAM – 32GB 2400MHz (2*16GB)
MB - Gigabyte A520I AC
GFX - intergrated Vaga
5xSeagate IronWolf 10 TB NAS Internal Hard Drive HDD
Network - Intel X540-T1 RJ45
Power supply - Be quiet 300W

Draws about 56W at idle and 119W max running TrueNAS Scale with a couple of Docker Containers.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom