Power consumption is hovering around 42 Watts with the following configuration:
Add in NIC removed
USB 3.0 Disabled in BIOS
Sound disabled in BIOS
One 120 mm Fan, Low Speed
Fujitsu 120 GB 2.5" SATA HDD OS Drive
Power consumption rises to 53 Watts when adding the Seagate 1.5 TB...
I measured power consumption and it seems high - 52 Watts.
Motherboard, Ram, Case and Power Supply as specified in first post.
Fujitsu 120 GB 2.5" HDD as Boot/OS drive.
2 x 1.5 TB Seagate Barracuda ST15000DL003 as ZFS Mirror Drives. Seagate rates these as 4.5 W Idle, 5.8 W operating Seagate...
Idle Power usage was fairly high from what I remember, in the 40 W range on my meter. I just purchased two Seagate 1.5 TB Green Drives and will be building the system up again. I'll re-measure the power usage.
lnical
We just received notice from my company's supplier that warranties are changing for both Seagate and some Western Digital Hard Drives
Link to the Seagate Letter posted else where: Seagate Updates
Notice I received:
FYI.
lnical
Hi samduhman
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I was looking for a simple home NAS. I wanted one with decent performance and could hold at least 2 3.5 hard drives.
I had narrowed it down to a QNAP TS-212 or a Synology DS211j. Both of these are well regarded products with lots of features and OK performance.
For the same price as...