I’m trying to improve the power consumption of my NAS. The 2 (7200 rpm) HDDs I had were using 15W at idle and 5W when spun down. I’m reading a lot of conflicting information about what is lower power between HDD, SSD and NVMe SSD. Eventually I started looking at SATA SSD (please let me know if this is not the most power efficient)

I found this site that shows a benchmark of different SSDs and their average power consumption. I was about to go with WD Red but then I found a YouTube video saying I shouldn’t go with WD for a NAS.

Can you tell me what brand or model you’re using in your homelab that’s power efficient? Ideally I would like 4TB SSD.

Thanks!

  • czardestructo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    7 months ago

    My server is a ryzen 5600g based and has; 2 x m.2 SSDs, 3xSATA SSDs (20TB) and one spun down mechanical disk (14TB) and my total idle power is around 27W. The mechanical disk is the only notable load, unplugging it can save me 5W idle and when it spins up its about 15W total. I can give you specific model numbers if you like.

      • czardestructo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        7 months ago

        Here is the list!

        1 x Samsung SSD 980 1TB

        1 x Adata XPG SX8200 Pro 2TB

        2 x Samsung SSD 870 QVO 8TB

        1 x Western digital engineering sample. Cannot comment. 4TB

        1 x Seagate Exos X16 14tb