I wonder if my system is good or bad. My server needs 0.1kWh.

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[–] 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

17W for an N100 system with 4 HDD's

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's pretty low with 4 HDD's. One of my servers use 30 watts. Half of that is from the 2 HDD's in it.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    @meldrik @qaz I've got a bunch of older, smaller drives, and as they fail I'm slowly transitioning to much more efficient (and larger) HGST helium drives. I don't have measurements, but anecdotally a dual-drive USB dock with crappy 1.5A power adapter (so 18W) couldn't handle spinning up two older drives but could handle two HGST drives.

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