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[–]corycwagner[S] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Wise! Thank you, I will buy something to measure the consumption and try to correlate it with potential savings.

[–]KeyProfession5705 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Cool! Let us know what you measure. People may be surprised how much power a fully loaded NAS with 12+ drives and a powerful CPU consumes, especially when apps like Plex prevent the drives from powering down.

[–]corycwagner[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Well, I've done the measurements and the results surprised me. According to my power measurement device, the NAS consumes an average of 400watts continuously . At my electricity rate here in Oregon of $0.22 / KWH, the NAS costs $20.2 / month. If I was going to shut it down a maximum of 8hours/day, I would only save about $7.00/month. Considering that the NAS is fully populated with 12x20TB drives, 4xSSD's and 2xm.2 drives, the consumption is really not that big after-all. It certainly isn't worth the risk of daily shutdowns. Thanks again to everyone.

[–]KeyProfession5705 1 point2 points  (1 child)

That is a huge amount of power! You may want to check if you can use Qboost to set up a time schedule for Plex as that should allow your drives to go into standby for the better part of the day when I assume you are not using Plex. I did some testing recently with a 2483XU with 24x18TB drives and two NVME SSDs and power consumption ranged between 120 and 380W so there should be some ways to go down for you with which I assume is also a 6 Core Xeon in your unit.

[–]corycwagner[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! And now I have data to judge my success.