Do you remember how many Watts it was using with idle disks?
>Corsair SF450 PSU
>ASRock Rack X570D4U w/BMC
>AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 5750GE (8C 3.2/4.6 GHz)
>128GB DDR4-2666 ECC
>Intel XL710-DA1 (40Gbps)
>LSI/Broadcom 9500-8i HBA
>64GB SuperMicro SATA DOM
>2 SK Hynix Gold P31, 2TB NVMe SSD
>8 Hitachi 7200rpm, 16TB HDD
>3 80mm fans, 2 40mm fans, CPU cooler
Most data ingest and reads comes from the SSD cache, with that being more around 60W for high throughput. Under very high loads (saturating the 40Gbps link) with all disks going, only hits about 110-120W.
By comparison, a 6-bay Synology was over double that idle power consumption, and couldn’t come close to that throughput.
I could drop a few more watts if ASRock could put together a decent BIOS where disabling things actually disables things.
SuperMicro costs what it does for a reason.
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If you’re looking for a chassis, I’m using a SilverStone RM21-308, with a Noctua NH-L9a-AM4 cooler, and cut some SilverStone sound deadening foam for the top panel of the 2U chassis.
Aside from disks clicking, it’s silent, runs hilariously cool (I 3D printed chipset and HBA fan mounts at a local library) and it’s more usable storage, higher performance (saturates 40Gbps trivially) and lower power consumption than anything any YouTuber has come remotely close to. That server basically lets me have everything else in my rack not care much about storage, because the storage server handles it like a champ. I really considered doing a video series on it, but I’m too old to want to deal with the peanut gallery of YouTube comments.
Do you know how to make the BMC not a laggy mess when using the “H5Viewer”? I’m getting basically unusable latency when the system is two yards away compared to a RDP server 1,000 miles away.
I think it was idling at something like 30-40W with four HDDs and a UPS. I didn't have an especially efficient PSU and the UPS must have taken some power too. The motherboard alone would draw as little as 15W, I suppose.