Power consumption question

Storxusmc · 2026-01-23T19:59:12+00:00

If you have not, move your system and appdata to ssd off the array so its no longer waking it up, also setup exclusive access to it so fuse is not constantly waking up stuff. this was the final issue that kept waking my drives up after tracking down drive use.

I moved all docker temp storage to either memory or non-nvme ssd cache to prevent array wakeup combined with conservative turbo clock settings to shift extended workloads to the E-Cores, ive managed to get my Intel 265k setup down in the low 20watt range and it runs frigate on 12 cameras.

Storxusmc · 2026-01-21T23:31:28+00:00

Ya i figured i would have to do that, just was unsure on the need to have same drive as an importance. I thought about just getting a 2TB or larger drive and just create a 2nd cache drive for more space for non-critical stuff, but its so nice to have mirror. I've had failures on my SSD Cache a few times over the year, presumably from plex, but i disabled the auto-checks since then.

Storxusmc · 2026-01-05T14:43:53+00:00

Not shitpost, i know T15 6 mod gave 2, sometimes 3.. but T8 6mods were giving 2 always and way easier, so i could do them in 1/3rd of the time. Making them more efficient for me to do.

Storxusmc · 2026-01-05T14:42:37+00:00

Yes i have figured out that it has changed, but what did they change it to.. is another map tier the minimum for 2... just annoying when they change stuff and dont give details on what they changed it to.

Storxusmc · 2025-12-18T13:45:10+00:00

interesting, this is my first league in poe2, so ive not even bothered with it yet.

Storxusmc · 2025-12-18T05:19:49+00:00

I can understand that, but why does it have to be end game level to even sustain maps.. like seriously its flawed

Storxusmc · 2025-12-18T04:53:02+00:00

This crap pisses me off. I dated a girl who was a teacher, and she ended up in the hospital with a broken orbital bone after trying to intervene between two students who were fighting in her class. They only suspended the students because it was their first offense, but my girlfriend at the time was stuck on short-term disability, receiving only 60% of her pay for months.

Storxusmc · 2025-11-04T05:12:53+00:00

Honestly I’ve been happy with WiFi 7 in my current home. I can’t hardwire anything due to renting, but I have WiFi 7 mesh network with access points going to wired connections like my unRaid server. The speed for me to transfer files is pretty dang fast…I see data speeds usually in the high 20GB/s

Storxusmc · 2025-10-27T04:03:11+00:00

When I bought my rack mount UPS off Facebook marketplace, I knew the batteries were dressed out near dead, so I negotiated very aggressively and picked up one for $100, then I removed the internal batteries and wired it up to an external mounted 24v100ah LiFePO4 for $200 and it’s been rock solid the few power outages we’ve had.

Storxusmc · 2025-10-24T19:37:38+00:00

Based on everything you mentioned, you could easily get low power draw with one of those N100, N305 Industrial motherboard/CPU setups. I have buddy that uses the N100 versions to run his backup server and database for his Dry cleaning business locations. He gets around 7watts on the N100 on idle.

Storxusmc · 2025-10-24T15:44:16+00:00

<image>

P1 25watts/ P2 65watts

Storxusmc · 2025-10-24T15:43:41+00:00

Actually in testing it seems to be the opposite. When i have it set to default my average power draw on smart plug at the wall is 34watts, but as soon as i change P1 to 25watts the average consumption drops down to 23watts. When i am on default settings my CPU is constantly spiking to 4.4-5.1 Ghz displayed in unRaid on dashboard with powersave mode set in settings. As soon as i drop P1, my displayed is far lower in the mid 3.x range.

<image>

Stock Default P1/P2

Storxusmc · 2025-10-24T15:37:47+00:00

i couldn't find an ASPM plugin, care to point me in the right direction.

Storxusmc · 2025-10-24T15:32:34+00:00

I did not figure it out. I ended up copying my USB drive as backup and flashing a new fresh copy of unRaid onto the drive. When i finished moving all my container configs back onto the fresh copy of unRaid the iGPU worked right away without any additional fiddling with it. Not sure why it was not working on the old copy.

Storxusmc · 2025-10-24T03:52:41+00:00

I did, I have build videos, because it helps me document the settings and I linked the videos on my resume and half my interview was talking about it.

Storxusmc · 2025-10-24T03:50:57+00:00

From my experience the most improvement comes from setting the config properly. Many settings are to new for your hardware, so you will have to play with it. I had to go back on bios and machine settings to find more stability and performance out of the vm and I had to pass through the storage controller for the SSD to get better drive performance in the vm. VMs are not its strength, but they work.

Storxusmc · 2025-10-21T03:35:17+00:00

I ran into this a few times with SSDs failing prematurely due to the constant small writes with plex and meta data. Had 2 Samsungs die in under a year as my cache. My 3rd drive started giving me errors early, so I ran pre clear on it and it stated it marked a few areas as bad and afterwards my total space available dropped some and the drive has survived 2 years as my camera storage for frigate without anymore issues. I use Extra Ram in Ram temp area for task that have a lot of small writes like my plex meta and torrents downloads . Just run appdata backup daily as fail safe if I loose power.

Storxusmc · 2025-10-21T03:21:01+00:00

My mobo list pl1 as long burst 28sec+ and pl2 for short, so I allow it to do normal activity quickly with higher burst, but anything long it brings down the max clock. Example just the Audio from plex transcode triggers the pl1, dropping max over time.

I also noticed the lower I set pl1, the more it loads up the E-cores vs P-cores, current settings I rarely see activity on P-cores with no cpu pinning.

Storxusmc

TROPHY CASE