Managing server power consumtion

[sunny_raven]

Hi All!

I recently stumbled upon @DomSmith's topic on a power efficient server and while I mostly understand how it was achieved and that I definitely can't replicate the same power consumption with my hardware, I wanted to see if anyone has any tips or tricks on minimizing the rig's power consumption while idle. 

I did read up on this forum and off it about drive spin-down and it sounds like a gamble I'd like to avoid for drive longevity. In the long run and with today's prices, I feel like a bit more power is worth the drive health. 

I also poked around the MB BIOS settings like power saving and C states, but had to backtrack as that severely impacted sudden loads like LLM loading up with server just locking up until restart.

 

If there is any know-how out there, please share it!

 

PS. possibly not the right section for this, but only one I found on hardware discussions.