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You sir (assuming you are male, otherwise replace with gender-appropriate alternative), are a hero. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge and experience. In 2015 I bought my first NAS, and populated with drives I had sitting in my desktop PC. 1 drive failed within a few months, and the other not very much later. After that, I bought NAS drives (WD RED), and they just work, for 8 years now. I feel like having desktop drives in a NAS is a big reason for drive failure. I will not for a moment consider buying non NAS drives for a NAS after that first experience with desktop drives. I am not downplaying your spin down argument. I recognize and respect the much bigger amount of experience. Your thoughts on this topic, even if taken with a pinch of salt, are probably more reliable than mine, if I had any on this topic to begin with. I thought spinning down would be an easy way to get more efficiency from the most power hungry devices in my NAS, and I still want my server to be as efficient as possible, but not at the risk of loosing drives. I will certainly keep the spin-down at default. Thanks again.

I also have problems with eMMC flash. For me, a M.2 sata drive worked.

Thank you for your answer. It helps more than I hoped for in an answer. Your personal experience with testing HT makes it trustworthy. I will be enabling HT. As I understand it, it will likely help reduce power in most situations, and when it doesn’t, it will be peanuts compared to other hardware. I have management over 2 CPU cores. I guess having 2 doubled to 4 threads will likely be more impactful than 8 to 16 for example, because of the higher chance those threads will be utilized. I did look at all aspects of my build. Single channel memory (1 stick uses less energy than 2, and it is not a bandwidth heavy load I think), initially emmc memory (but changed that to normal sata flash because of compatibility issues), older CPU, but recent enough for advanced C-states, efficient PSU in the sub 80 watt range. And I know the most power hungry are the HDD drives. I got some lower range NAS drives. They are efficient. Not the most efficient, but I guessed their firmware would make them better fit, in addition to longevity features of such disks. I’ve never looked at firmware versions though, and if they are upgradable. I’ve yet to look into configuring spin-up and spin-down as well, if they are user configurable.

Got it for my birthday from my siser. It’s a Dutch brand. So I don’t know if it is helpful to share, but here is a photo:

I drink the same tea for a longer period, maybe a few weeks, then switching, but always rotating back. Green, black, rooibos, camomile. Always good quality. I use loose tea, just to be sure, but I can't see why good tea can't come pre-bagged. But to add something interesting, for the rare moment I like my tea to punch me in the face in a figuratively way of speaking: I have a japanese black tea, smoked with used whisky barrels. At the wrong time, it only tastes of smoke. But at the right time, it is an amazing and complicated mix of different black tea aromas with a powerfull smokiness that is just not too heavy. It is amazing, but it is a difficult tea for rare moments.

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I wanted to share my server setup with you. My requirements are simple: energy efficient WAF. My internet connection is in the living room for some reason, so it is where my router and server will be. My wife should not object to having this server in a corner of the living room. Built to last Expandable Not crazy expensive I got a cooler master silencio s400 limited sakura edition case. Quiet, and cute. Wife approved. It has 3 new seagate NAS drives at the moment. I will add more when I have budget. I choose an intel i3 7100 cpu. It is very efficient, cheap, and the first generation with multiple advanced C-states for idle power reduction. I think 2 cores will be enough for me. It is in an ASUS H110M-A/M.2 motherboard (uatx is generally most power efficient, and it has multiple sata ports, and expandability through pci-e if really needed). I choose a big tower cooler. It cools better, so the fan can spin slower. This will make the NAS quieter and again, it saves on power. I have one fan installed in the back of the case. It spins too fast and it is too loud. I will try to slow it down at a later moment, I have a single stick of 8GB 2133MHz RAM. I believe capacity is more important than bandwidth in NAS applications, and 1 stick is more energy efficient than 2, and it leaves me the possibility to add another stick in the future. The boot drive is an NVMe MMC flash drive. Speed is comparable to SD cards, but it saves energy compared to regular SSD’s. I reused it from an upgraded steam deck. It got a big and proper SSD. Power consumption is low, and regular ATX power supplies are less efficient in low power. The PSU’s designed for low power available are no-brand cheap crap that I don’t trust. So I went for a pico-psu with external 12 V power brick. The PSU is mounted directly in the ATX24p header. I 3D-printed a bracket for the power brick plug In the pictures, the NAS is not in its permanent location, but temporarily set-up at the teleV for installation. Installation is failing for now, but that is for another topic. Would love to hear your feedback, compliments are nice, but other feedback is also welcome.

I want minimal energy usage. I choose my hardware appropriately. Relatively recent Intel celeron with required (by me) low powerd C-states. Should I enable hyperthreading? Hyperthreading will increase power usage, but might also lead to the CPU finish the task faster, and return to low power C-state earlier. What will be more energy efficient? Quick high power HT/SMT for a short amount of time, or less power for a longer time? Does anyone have experience or knowledge about this?

Problem with hardware RAID is, when your motherboard dies, the RAID array is tied to the RAID controller so it can’t be restored, and your data is lost. Use software RAID. HexOS is made for simplicity. Just do as little as possible, let the OS choose for you. It will be the best for most users in its target audience.