are you planning on building a NAS or you just gonna continue to throw drives at your problem?
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^This
My grandma complained about the high electricity use, so a NAS is not in the cards for now. Plus, a NAS enclosure or a freeNAS build are too expensive for now.
The high electricity use might have to do with my CPU being at 100% for the minimum.
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A NAS doesn’t need to be a high powered server though. can get NAS capable machines are pull like 15-30W from the wall without disks.
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constantly spinning your drives up/down is hard on them but wont make too much of a difference. just spin them down after 10 minutes or so
also what @Michael said
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It’s set to 20min.
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the 100% just prevents the cpu from clocking down. your talking a extra 5-10W max
that might be your power use right there. iirc you have 10-12 drives so your talking 100-200W when your using them and maybe 50W when all of them idle
how often do you use your drives though. are you constantly using them or write something and dont touch it?
A good option would be a external drive bay and just hotswap drives as you need the data. would help limit the amount of power you draw plus your drive limit isnt limited to your case/windows
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How much/little power it actually uses would probably not matter that much. My grandma sees ANY electronic device and judges its power consumption based on its size (the bigger -> the more power it chugs). I’ve told her lots of times that my laptop consumes less power running all night than when she leaves the lights on in the livingroom (6x 40W bulbs).
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My mom is pretty much the same way. she leaves her tv on all the time 30W-60W but bitches about the light in my room being on <15W max
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Also thats normal to have it at 100% lol just means it can go to full speed if it needs to
You arent actually at 100% unless you are putting the cpu to 100% load. So at idle your rig is somewhere between 50-200 watts depends on age and specs. So basically not noticeable electricity cost.
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Uhm…what?
2x 1TB WD Blue
2x 3TB HGST NAS
1x 4TB HGST NAS
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could have sworn you had alot more drives than that lol. remember you bitching about modern cases only supporting upto 6 3.5" drives lol
so about 25W idle and 50W-100W when being used. it will vary alot because drive manufacters dont really publish powerdraw stats about the drives
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How much space do you use across all that?
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So, the minimum processor state doesn’t indicate how low it can go in terms of clock speeds?
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Lol my mom was bitching about an unusually high power bill … When I wasnt mining nor was my dad the whole month.
Somehow my PC idling and being on (less than 100 wats between both PCs usually because Ryzen) is to blame. Wat.
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12TB internal and another 6TB on 2 external drives.
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It just says the maximum speed it can be not what it is currently so.
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minimum process state just prevents the CPU from downclocking
@Cavemanthe0ne your thinking of maximum processor speed
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All of those settings do basically nothing anyway other than the minutes to go to sleep for hdds and such lol so
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pretty much. i wouldnt go below 25% because windows will try and make the processor sip power and can make windows unresponsive
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6x 3.5" bays are rare in new cases (cause muh tempered glass and water cooling). And I wanted one with adding some in the future in mind, not just for the ones I already have.
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