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NAS Power Consumption (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by atk007@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I have been using an old PC as NAS and running docker containers (Immich, Nextcloud, paperless-ngx etc.). I got 5 3.5" HDD disks and a Nvme. Even on idle, I am consuming 50-60w. A friend of mine is selling a Qnap NAS which is a dedicated machine and probably consumes less power, although I don't know if it's worth it.

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[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have an old dell power edge that I got from work that I used as a NAS for a while, it sucked down more juice than the old PC I was using and was stupidly loud all the time. I ended up transferring everything back to my old PC and now that turd just sits there waiting for someone else to be dumb enough to buy it from me. I wouldn't waste the money personally.

[–] Impromptu2599@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The power edge server is going to draw way more power just because it has a "powerful" cpu(s) and other power running components. The Qnap will be much quieter and consume maybe a few watts less power than your existing setup, potentially. I wouldn't use it though because your existing setup is way more flexible on what you can do with it.

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

"powerful" LOL it's a turd

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/123540/intel-xeon-bronze-3106-processor-11m-cache-1-70-ghz/specifications.html

but yeah my current setup also happens to play games and adding storage is much easier cuz I can just throw whatever in there instead of making sure the drive conforms to some arbitrary crap.

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's "powerful" in the sense that it has 48 PCI lanes and can use almost 800GB of memory (ECC included). This is just way overkill on most homelabs so the extra power draw isn't worth it.

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, in that context I would agree.

[–] atk007@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you, this is what I am thinking too. I don't wanna create e-waste, and apart from power consumption, the nas is very handy performance wise and tackles all load.