I'd be interested to see how much lower the power consumption gets with an SSD-only NAS, it's especially appealing because it would be completely silent AND power efficient.
it may be power efficient but you might end up paying much more in the end. Not talking about cost price of SSD vs HDD. SSD has a definite life span while HDD do not. SSD's life span depends on how much it has written. The term is TBW rating which mean terabytes written. Lets say an SSD rating is 100 TBW. Once 100 terabytes (give or take) has been written to the SSD, it is completely dead and useless. you prob wont even be able to recover anything from it.
@@ericliu2325 If you kill an SSD from writing too much data on it you will most likely not lose any data, the drive goes into read-only mode. I know because I've done it to both SSDs and flash drives, they start getting super slow at writing and then go into read-only, you can still get your data out.
Thanks for the info, very helpful. I've been using the DS 918+ with 4 X 4TB Ironwolf drives, along with 2 X 512 M2 cache. I live on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, most of the power in the province is generated by hydro dams. So in comparison to the rest of Canada, we have relatively the cheapest energy in the country. I have a device that monitors my usage and I receive a weekly report. Throughout the summer, my usage is between $17 to $23 per week, that's with a heatpump/airconditioner and all the other electrical devices in my home. My home was built in 2006, modern construction, airtight, 1,800 sqft rancher. I'm currently looking at finding a device(s) that will allow me to monitor all the equipment running in my office, home-lab, along with all my POE security cameras. This way I can break the usage down, so my wife will stop saying I'm using to much....lol
There seems to be some confusion about units here. A watt or kilowatt is a measure of power. Power is the rate of energy consumption. A watt (power unit) is one joule (energy unit) per second. To make the numbers simple, we measure electrical energy in watt or kilowatt hours, rather than in joules or kilojoules. A device running at 10 watts for 24 hours uses 10 x 24 = 240 watt hours (or 0.24 kilowatt hours) of energy. It is incorrect to use the term watts per hour, because a watt is a power measurement, not an energy measurement. I hope that helps.
One thing I'd be curious about is how this compares to an old computer that has been set up as a NAS. One of the things that people have always suggested to do with an older computer is simply re-purpose the computer and one use is as a NAS. My expectation would be that a purpose built NAS would be more energy efficient than a general computer used as a NAS, but I would wonder how large the difference would be.
10:44 Time Stamp : You say that 4x4TB WD RED NAS plus Synology DS920 consumes at full load 21,25Watts WD Official Data Sheet for these drives give 3.8 Watt concumption (x4= 14.4 Watt for drives) Synology Inc. at specification sheet of Ds940+ giving: Power Consumption* 32.17 W (Access) 9.69 W (HDD Hibernation) British Thermal Unit 109.84 BTU/hr (Access) 33.09 BTU/hr (HDD Hibernation) Notes Power consumption is measured when it is fully loaded with Western Digital 1TB WD10EFRX hard drive(s). Noise Level Testing Environment: Fully loaded with Seagate 2TB ST2000VN000 hard drive(s) in the idle state. Two G.R.A.S. Type 40AE microphones, each set up 1 meter away from the Synology NAS at the front and rear. Background noise: 16.49-17.51 dB(A); Temperature: 24.25-25.75˚C; Humidity: 58.2-61.8% Power Management10 for WD10EFRX (WD Official Data Sheet) 12VDC ±5% (A, peak) 1.75 5VDC ±5% (A, peak) 1.00 Average power requirements (W) Read/write 3.3 Idle 2.3 Standby and sleep 0.4 So if we say that 4xWD10EFRX have a concumption of 13.2Watts (as mentioned from WD official data sheet), The host machine Synology DS920+ consumes for itself 32.17-13.2 = 18.97 Watt Now if we add the power concumption of 4x4TB WD RED NAS we take: 18.97 + 14.4 = 36.97 Watts!!! And if we multiply this number by 24 times , we have: 0.887 KWh/day whichn means 26.6KWh per month or 320KWh annualy. Multiplay now this number with your local charges for electrik energy to find the exactly power cost for this machine. Do not forget to calculate any penalties for overconcumption wich applied in some countries after a basic amaount of energy consumption. Higher capacity drives have higher consumptions which can touch even 10Watts per drive for 16TB 18TB 20TB and 22TB drives. I think that you have issue with your energy counters. The simlest and more reliable method is the usage of a "Kill a Watt" meter directly between machine`s fis and wall source.
I have a Kill a Watt in my xpenology microserver gen8 and it's 38watts with x3 4tb red plus in idle. And it's not true that each disk adds 3watts,in idle is much less. Also, I know that if I use a ds920+ with my 3 disks then in idle the watts will be more or less the half of my xpenology. So, it has sense the result of 18watts. I never heard about 36.97 Watts on a ds920+, all are less than 20watts in idle.
on Canadian rates - while it does vary province by province, yep - our electricity costs are indeed that cheap! hydro power makes things a lot cheaper over a long period, when dam construction are done. Ontario Hydro: ~$0.113/kWH; Manitoba hydro: $0.0932/kWH; BC hydro: $0.1132/kWH and Quebec Hydro: $0.06319/kWH.
Thanks. I have a QNAP TS-451+ whose drives always seemed to be doing something. It got so bad I turned it off for months as I didn’t want to pay for unnecessary electricity consumption. These days I keep it in sleep mode and wake it up for when I need it then back to sleep. Meets my user case but not everyone’s user case. Having installed LED lighting throughout the house I can’t justify an appliance on 24x7.
I recommend to get the 5TB Seagate Barracuda 2.5 inch drives for any home NAS. These drives can be harvested from inexpensive external USB drives, have the same 600000 load unload cycles as a WD RED and have up to 140 MB/s transfer rate. I have used three of these in a SHR RAID and one of them has already over 15000 hours of use. These drives will significantly reduce the power consumption of any 4 bay NAS.
NAS power consumption only matters in the summer. In the winter, NAS energy just contributes to heating the house. I have a 920+ with two WD 4 TB drives. Fan speed can affect power consumption. There are three fan settings: Full-speed mode, Cool mode, and Quiet mode. I set mine to Quiet mode. The air coming out of the back of the NAS is never noticeably warm. I installed a total of 8 GB RAM and have memory compression disabled.
Excellent job, very thorough & informative. I'm sure this will be helpful to alot of your viewers. Any possibility of this test on the TVS-872X or on the TVS-872XT which is pretty much the same system?
I have Xpenology with HP microserver gen8 + 3x 4tb red plus and the consumption is 38watts in Idle. I want to buy the new ds923+ to also divide by 2 this consumption.
I've always powered off my ds 218+ if not used for a couple of days first thing because of power consumption second because i try to avoid hdd tear. Anyway thanks for this useful information and test
But then it looses the charm of nas as you can basically do that with secobd pc. I look nas as always on system. If its not i am better off with actual pc and some siftware
Have not finished your video yet, so sorry if it is answered but can ssd cache THEORETICALLY reduce power consumption if I use services like Sonarr or Radarr that periodicaly scan and download media to my server? (Sonarr and Radarr run on my Mini pc, not synology ds920). Also are bigger harddrives more power hungry? I have wd red plus 8tb. Btw your videos are perfect, I am still watching your stuff even months after I bought my NAS and set up everything I needed, thank you for your work!
I wonder whether the power consumption is the same in different countries given the differences in mains voltage. USA and Canada uses 120V, Australia uses 220-240V, Germany and UK uses 230V.
So if you had a Synology multi bay NAS is it possible to run the operating system, virtual machines docker images etc on SSDs ( 1 volume) and have all your extra data on mechanical drives (2nd volume - photos, movies music, personal files) so the power consuming volumes shut down when not being used to reduce power consumption? Data you keep may be many many terabytes but data you use constantly may only be Gigabytes. A home assistant container/VM may only be 32 GB. Multiple containers/VMs etc may be able to be run successfully on a single TB SSD. Perhaps running all your apps/services on a Mac M1 chipped computer is the way to go. Heaps of power, low energy use for 24/7 home server. A mix of internal/external SSDs with an external HDD array for that mass storage - if energy consumption was your concern. Also has the power for everyday computing tasks as well. My DS1821+, router, modem, switch & ups pulls from 110-130watts depending on load. Idles along around 110. My Mac mini idles along at about 9watts with 2 SSD drives. My Pi with a single SSD idles about 5 watts from memory. The Mac gives the best bang for buck but is not as easy to setup as the Synology for multiple services. The Pi is the cheapest to run but again not as easy to run as the synology for multiple services. How much is convenience worth? In my case if the Synology saves me 5 hours of my time a year it has paid for the electricity.
Say 4 18TB drives active on DS920+ , how much power does it consume? To give more information say the drives are Seagate exos or WD ultrastar 18TBs. Not all drives are at full utilisation all the time.
In order to save some money I’m using the DSM scheduler feature to shut down a Synology DS220+ after 11H p.m. and power on from 8 a.m. every day. I wonder if this constantly power on/off cycles can stress the equipment and eventually make it less durable?
@@pedrojesusbarata I've only been doing it for a few weeks but nothing major. I did notice it didn't power down one evening but that may have been it detecting i was actually using the NAS though i didn't realise it was that clever! (unless it was another issue).
Greetings from San Diego California. Our Summertime cost from SDGE for 24 hours would be $.2374. About 9 times the US average. We just love our fun and sun😅.
Thanks man, very helpful. I have been wondering how much my NAS is costing me and been powering down in the week to save el. More reassured that it is not costing a fortune and will leave it idled from now.
I've finally gone the DS920+ route after measuring my media server idle power over 24hrs. It's really nice having a server to play with but it was costing me £20 per month and that is at September 2021 prices. On Saturday that becomes unafordable so my Plex library will live on the 920+
As someoen who's' avoiding paying for Cloud Storage this is a very important consideration. However, I would assume many of us, such as myself, Cuttting that Cord/Bill with a more affordable (DS220+ / DS420). It would be nice to see these more consumer levels NASs added to the mix. But for now, I'll assume they are about the same or less than the 9+ series. For Ontario Canada, average price is a little over 0.10c. But with the more complicated Peak, Mid-Peak, Off-Peak fees. Assuming someone who's using a NAS as I am, Photo/video storage, with the ocational evening video viewing, I'd be in idle more than 75% (honestly it's more like 90% idle). That said, we are looking at about $5 a year. Looking forward to Eddie's tool. that'll be really nice :) For reference I already have 2 WD 8TB Red Plus drive. I'll be dropping them in a DS223+ or DS423.
I'm with e.on and the tarrif I'm on has cheap rates and standard rates through a 24 hour period, so I'd have to work out the cost on the standard rate and cheap rate per the hours. I'm also running a more higher end NAS, DS3617xs & DX1215 both fully populated with 16Tb drives 12 Toshiba / 12 Seagate. How about doing one on a PC's PSU. I've got a gaming rig with a 1.2KW PSU but don't play games much.
Thanks for the video. Obviously, the energy consumption is mainly caused by the drives. Therefore, I am asking myself whether its worthwhile to have three 4TB HDDs in my new NAS with SHR in order to speed up the system or whether I should stick to two drives with lower energy consumption. What are your thoughts? Will 3 drives vs 2 increase speed significantly?
very much appreciate this video! only (constructive comment) is that there are so MANY variables into actual power consumption from services being used and how often...data transfers being done and how often and the physical drives being used. BUT you did demonstrate how to do this so people can figure out their own power consumption.
Today to have a private server and private media server is expensive , just the hardware ,DS synology 920 about 500.00 four Nas hard fives 800.00 , add the electricity cost , well yes it’s expensive but more expensive will be to lose all the data . Just think about it!
Dude, a word of advice: your videos are interesting yet tooooooooooooo bloody long. You repeat things 3, 4, sometimes even 5 times! And not just this one with the power utilization.
Appreciate the effort going into this, but gonna say you've set yourself an impossible task. At least here in the USA, per KWh pricing is all over the map, even trying to take a "national average" is not going to mean much other than a tiny slice that are at the average. Plus residential rates can vary vastly from commercial rates, even in the exact same locale. Like I'm in Virginia and pay $.10/KWh fixed, yet a friend in Boston pays $.32 and is on variable rate that changes at different times of the day. IMO where the value you can offer comes in you and Eddie gathering and comparing load/no-load/typical-load consumption data across a range of "typical" NAS setups, and leave it to the viewer to calculate what that means for a local "price to operate". All caveats aside, I think you're creating a bunch of extra work for yourself that in the end a potential NAS user is going to have to figure out on their own.
I'd be interested to see how much lower the power consumption gets with an SSD-only NAS, it's especially appealing because it would be completely silent AND power efficient.
I am running a Rasperry Pi with an SSD disk as external storage. It stores all my movies, music and a few other files and runs at about 2W.
@@larsgregersen Maybe each ssd uses 2W? A raspberry pi uses minimum 15 watts
it may be power efficient but you might end up paying much more in the end. Not talking about cost price of SSD vs HDD. SSD has a definite life span while HDD do not. SSD's life span depends on how much it has written. The term is TBW rating which mean terabytes written. Lets say an SSD rating is 100 TBW. Once 100 terabytes (give or take) has been written to the SSD, it is completely dead and useless. you prob wont even be able to recover anything from it.
@@ericliu2325 If you kill an SSD from writing too much data on it you will most likely not lose any data, the drive goes into read-only mode. I know because I've done it to both SSDs and flash drives, they start getting super slow at writing and then go into read-only, you can still get your data out.
Thanks for the info, very helpful. I've been using the DS 918+ with 4 X 4TB Ironwolf drives, along with 2 X 512 M2 cache. I live on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, most of the power in the province is generated by hydro dams. So in comparison to the rest of Canada, we have relatively the cheapest energy in the country. I have a device that monitors my usage and I receive a weekly report. Throughout the summer, my usage is between $17 to $23 per week, that's with a heatpump/airconditioner and all the other electrical devices in my home. My home was built in 2006, modern construction, airtight, 1,800 sqft rancher. I'm currently looking at finding a device(s) that will allow me to monitor all the equipment running in my office, home-lab, along with all my POE security cameras. This way I can break the usage down, so my wife will stop saying I'm using to much....lol
There seems to be some confusion about units here. A watt or kilowatt is a measure of power. Power is the rate of energy consumption. A watt (power unit) is one joule (energy unit) per second. To make the numbers simple, we measure electrical energy in watt or kilowatt hours, rather than in joules or kilojoules. A device running at 10 watts for 24 hours uses 10 x 24 = 240 watt hours (or 0.24 kilowatt hours) of energy. It is incorrect to use the term watts per hour, because a watt is a power measurement, not an energy measurement. I hope that helps.
True.
I was confused by: used 0,51kW in 24 hrs.
It should be 0,51kWh in 24 hrs is 21,2W in average.
One thing I'd be curious about is how this compares to an old computer that has been set up as a NAS. One of the things that people have always suggested to do with an older computer is simply re-purpose the computer and one use is as a NAS. My expectation would be that a purpose built NAS would be more energy efficient than a general computer used as a NAS, but I would wonder how large the difference would be.
10:44 Time Stamp : You say that 4x4TB WD RED NAS plus Synology DS920 consumes at full load 21,25Watts
WD Official Data Sheet for these drives give 3.8 Watt concumption (x4= 14.4 Watt for drives)
Synology Inc. at specification sheet of Ds940+ giving:
Power Consumption* 32.17 W (Access) 9.69 W (HDD Hibernation)
British Thermal Unit 109.84 BTU/hr (Access) 33.09 BTU/hr (HDD Hibernation)
Notes
Power consumption is measured when it is fully loaded with Western Digital 1TB WD10EFRX hard drive(s).
Noise Level Testing Environment: Fully loaded with Seagate 2TB ST2000VN000 hard drive(s) in the idle state. Two G.R.A.S. Type 40AE microphones, each set up 1 meter away from the Synology NAS at the front and rear. Background noise: 16.49-17.51 dB(A); Temperature: 24.25-25.75˚C; Humidity: 58.2-61.8%
Power Management10 for WD10EFRX (WD Official Data Sheet)
12VDC ±5% (A, peak) 1.75
5VDC ±5% (A, peak) 1.00
Average power requirements (W)
Read/write 3.3
Idle 2.3
Standby and sleep 0.4
So if we say that 4xWD10EFRX have a concumption of 13.2Watts (as mentioned from WD official data sheet), The host machine Synology DS920+ consumes for itself 32.17-13.2 = 18.97 Watt
Now if we add the power concumption of 4x4TB WD RED NAS we take: 18.97 + 14.4 = 36.97 Watts!!! And if we multiply this number by 24 times , we have: 0.887 KWh/day whichn means 26.6KWh per month or 320KWh annualy.
Multiplay now this number with your local charges for electrik energy to find the exactly power cost for this machine.
Do not forget to calculate any penalties for overconcumption wich applied in some countries after a basic amaount of energy consumption.
Higher capacity drives have higher consumptions which can touch even 10Watts per drive for 16TB 18TB 20TB and 22TB drives.
I think that you have issue with your energy counters. The simlest and more reliable method is the usage of a "Kill a Watt" meter directly between machine`s fis and wall source.
I have a Kill a Watt in my xpenology microserver gen8 and it's 38watts with x3 4tb red plus in idle. And it's not true that each disk adds 3watts,in idle is much less.
Also, I know that if I use a ds920+ with my 3 disks then in idle the watts will be more or less the half of my xpenology. So, it has sense the result of 18watts. I never heard about 36.97 Watts on a ds920+, all are less than 20watts in idle.
@@betitaelfica2
"WD Red® Plus
PRODUCT BRIEF 3.5-INCH NAS HARD DRIVE
Specifications
Model Number5 WD40EFPX WD40EFZX
....
Performance
Internal transfer rate7 up to 180MB/s 175MB/s
Cache (MB)1 256MB 128MB
RPM 5400 5400
......
Reliability/Data Integrity
Load/unload cycles9 600,000 600,000
Non-recoverable read errors per
bits read
on Canadian rates - while it does vary province by province, yep - our electricity costs are indeed that cheap! hydro power makes things a lot cheaper over a long period, when dam construction are done. Ontario Hydro: ~$0.113/kWH; Manitoba hydro: $0.0932/kWH; BC hydro: $0.1132/kWH and Quebec Hydro: $0.06319/kWH.
Thanks. I have a QNAP TS-451+ whose drives always seemed to be doing something. It got so bad I turned it off for months as I didn’t want to pay for unnecessary electricity consumption. These days I keep it in sleep mode and wake it up for when I need it then back to sleep. Meets my user case but not everyone’s user case. Having installed LED lighting throughout the house I can’t justify an appliance on 24x7.
I recommend to get the 5TB Seagate Barracuda 2.5 inch drives for any home NAS. These drives can be harvested from inexpensive external USB drives, have the same 600000 load unload cycles as a WD RED and have up to 140 MB/s transfer rate. I have used three of these in a SHR RAID and one of them has already over 15000 hours of use. These drives will significantly reduce the power consumption of any 4 bay NAS.
Smr drives?
I'd never recommend Seagate to anyone, poor quality. Had many drives fail on me. WD all the way on HDDs.
SMR drives are not for NAS use! Very slow raid rebuild times = chance of data loss
NAS power consumption only matters in the summer. In the winter, NAS energy just contributes to heating the house.
I have a 920+ with two WD 4 TB drives. Fan speed can affect power consumption. There are three fan settings: Full-speed mode, Cool mode, and Quiet mode. I set mine to Quiet mode. The air coming out of the back of the NAS is never noticeably warm. I installed a total of 8 GB RAM and have memory compression disabled.
hah!
If you have an area of your home prone to black mold stick the fans facing that wall. ;-)
@@ClaggyPants Mmm.... black mold spores. Tasty!
excellent job of explaining the electricity consumption
great idea for a video. currently I have a ts-464 with four 12GB ironwolf drives and I'm looking forward the next video cause it's closer to my setup.
,please advise G2 video publish date,thanks
Yet another very helpful video. Big thank you to the whole team!
Excellent job, very thorough & informative. I'm sure this will be helpful to alot of your viewers. Any possibility of this test on the TVS-872X or on the TVS-872XT which is pretty much the same system?
Man, this video is awesome! I love your channel.
I hope you'll cover the WD PR4100 soon!
I have Xpenology with HP microserver gen8 + 3x 4tb red plus and the consumption is 38watts in Idle. I want to buy the new ds923+ to also divide by 2 this consumption.
Bought 920+ instead of waiting
I've always powered off my ds 218+ if not used for a couple of days first thing because of power consumption second because i try to avoid hdd tear. Anyway thanks for this useful information and test
But then it looses the charm of nas as you can basically do that with secobd pc. I look nas as always on system. If its not i am better off with actual pc and some siftware
Folkestone is quite remote....I hope you cover us 🤪
Have not finished your video yet, so sorry if it is answered but can ssd cache THEORETICALLY reduce power consumption if I use services like Sonarr or Radarr that periodicaly scan and download media to my server? (Sonarr and Radarr run on my Mini pc, not synology ds920).
Also are bigger harddrives more power hungry? I have wd red plus 8tb.
Btw your videos are perfect, I am still watching your stuff even months after I bought my NAS and set up everything I needed, thank you for your work!
Would it be much of an issue if I shut down the Nas when not in use
How would it take to boot up looking at the Synology 920
I wonder whether the power consumption is the same in different countries given the differences in mains voltage. USA and Canada uses 120V, Australia uses 220-240V, Germany and UK uses 230V.
So if you had a Synology multi bay NAS is it possible to run the operating system, virtual machines docker images etc on SSDs ( 1 volume) and have all your extra data on mechanical drives (2nd volume - photos, movies music, personal files) so the power consuming volumes shut down when not being used to reduce power consumption? Data you keep may be many many terabytes but data you use constantly may only be Gigabytes. A home assistant container/VM may only be 32 GB. Multiple containers/VMs etc may be able to be run successfully on a single TB SSD.
Perhaps running all your apps/services on a Mac M1 chipped computer is the way to go. Heaps of power, low energy use for 24/7 home server. A mix of internal/external SSDs with an external HDD array for that mass storage - if energy consumption was your concern. Also has the power for everyday computing tasks as well.
My DS1821+, router, modem, switch & ups pulls from 110-130watts depending on load. Idles along around 110. My Mac mini idles along at about 9watts with 2 SSD drives. My Pi with a single SSD idles about 5 watts from memory. The Mac gives the best bang for buck but is not as easy to setup as the Synology for multiple services. The Pi is the cheapest to run but again not as easy to run as the synology for multiple services. How much is convenience worth? In my case if the Synology saves me 5 hours of my time a year it has paid for the electricity.
Say 4 18TB drives active on DS920+ , how much power does it consume? To give more information say the drives are Seagate exos or WD ultrastar 18TBs. Not all drives are at full utilisation all the time.
In order to save some money I’m using the DSM scheduler feature to shut down a Synology DS220+ after 11H p.m. and power on from 8 a.m. every day. I wonder if this constantly power on/off cycles can stress the equipment and eventually make it less durable?
I had the very same question!
@@ADDICTIVESimon Any problem till now with the daily power cicles?
@@pedrojesusbarata I've only been doing it for a few weeks but nothing major. I did notice it didn't power down one evening but that may have been it detecting i was actually using the NAS though i didn't realise it was that clever! (unless it was another issue).
Great video really useful insight on these units!
Greetings from San Diego California. Our Summertime cost from SDGE for 24 hours would be $.2374. About 9 times the US average. We just love our fun and sun😅.
I’m in Quebec province and it’s cheaper then that. Here in Canada , we produce electricity with water 💧, so much cheaper and we have a lot of rivers
Thanks man, very helpful.
I have been wondering how much my NAS is costing me and been powering down in the week to save el. More reassured that it is not costing a fortune and will leave it idled from now.
Thanks for the analysis, super helpful.
I've finally gone the DS920+ route after measuring my media server idle power over 24hrs. It's really nice having a server to play with but it was costing me £20 per month and that is at September 2021 prices. On Saturday that becomes unafordable so my Plex library will live on the 920+
As someoen who's' avoiding paying for Cloud Storage this is a very important consideration.
However, I would assume many of us, such as myself, Cuttting that Cord/Bill with a more affordable (DS220+ / DS420).
It would be nice to see these more consumer levels NASs added to the mix. But for now, I'll assume they are about the same or less than the 9+ series.
For Ontario Canada, average price is a little over 0.10c. But with the more complicated Peak, Mid-Peak, Off-Peak fees.
Assuming someone who's using a NAS as I am, Photo/video storage, with the ocational evening video viewing, I'd be in idle more than 75% (honestly it's more like 90% idle).
That said, we are looking at about $5 a year.
Looking forward to Eddie's tool. that'll be really nice :)
For reference I already have 2 WD 8TB Red Plus drive. I'll be dropping them in a DS223+ or DS423.
Great content my dude
Thanks! This gives a nice indication. I’m actually pleasantly surprised. I was expecting gloom and doom with this energy crisis
Very, very helpful. Thank you.
I'm with e.on and the tarrif I'm on has cheap rates and standard rates through a 24 hour period, so I'd have to work out the cost on the standard rate and cheap rate per the hours.
I'm also running a more higher end NAS, DS3617xs & DX1215 both fully populated with 16Tb drives 12 Toshiba / 12 Seagate.
How about doing one on a PC's PSU. I've got a gaming rig with a 1.2KW PSU but don't play games much.
Check out Gamers Nexus, as I believe they do this kind of power testing at least on Ryzen 7000 and Intel 13th Gen CPUs, with GPU added.
Thanks for the video. Obviously, the energy consumption is mainly caused by the drives. Therefore, I am asking myself whether its worthwhile to have three 4TB HDDs in my new NAS with SHR in order to speed up the system or whether I should stick to two drives with lower energy consumption. What are your thoughts? Will 3 drives vs 2 increase speed significantly?
Best Home NAS drive for auto back-up of Android Mobile and Windows, preferably with NTFS file system?
Is there a reason why you would require NTFS on your NAS? IIRC most, if not all, commercially available NAS nowadays use either ext4 or btrfs.
Excellent advice
I can’t believe this wasn’t a 2 day live stream 😂😂😂
I mean..I could have done that..but..how many enemies can a man make?!
nice work thanx boss
i need more seagals :-)
"your basic B NAS setup lol...made me laugh
very much appreciate this video!
only (constructive comment) is that there are so MANY variables into actual power consumption from services being used and how often...data transfers being done and how often and the physical drives being used. BUT you did demonstrate how to do this so people can figure out their own power consumption.
Very true. Gonna try and cover the popular choices though and/or popular setup types
both units use 95 watts/hr on average for both my DS1817+ and DS1821+ with 8 drives in both units
I've got the 1819+ with 8 x 4tb WD reds using around the same amount of power.
Remote places huh 😂 ? I feel attacked watching from Ghana. 😅
So my nas is costing me 57£ annually in UK
Damn
My server uses 150w+ constantly 😑
This can't be a 2022 NAS Compares story without a PS5 test to add to the results 🤣
*points aggressively and sips tea* don't tempt me...
Today to have a private server and private media server is expensive , just the hardware ,DS synology 920 about 500.00 four Nas hard fives 800.00 , add the electricity cost , well yes it’s expensive but more expensive will be to lose all the data . Just think about it!
Dude, a word of advice: your videos are interesting yet tooooooooooooo bloody long. You repeat things 3, 4, sometimes even 5 times! And not just this one with the power utilization.
Appreciate the effort going into this, but gonna say you've set yourself an impossible task. At least here in the USA, per KWh pricing is all over the map, even trying to take a "national average" is not going to mean much other than a tiny slice that are at the average. Plus residential rates can vary vastly from commercial rates, even in the exact same locale. Like I'm in Virginia and pay $.10/KWh fixed, yet a friend in Boston pays $.32 and is on variable rate that changes at different times of the day.
IMO where the value you can offer comes in you and Eddie gathering and comparing load/no-load/typical-load consumption data across a range of "typical" NAS setups, and leave it to the viewer to calculate what that means for a local "price to operate". All caveats aside, I think you're creating a bunch of extra work for yourself that in the end a potential NAS user is going to have to figure out on their own.