Comment by shadowpho
1 day ago
> the NAS in idle consumes more power than my UNAS Pro with 4x8TB HDD and 2X8TB SSD, as well as a Mac mini M1 with a 2TB Samsung T7 SSD, and my 4 access points and 4 protect cameras combined.
Are your drives spun? 70w is a pretty low bar. The nas by itself is probably 40w with drives, Mac mini is another 7-10w (especially at wall) and now we are at 50w, so 20w left for 4 AP and cameras
drives are spinning. 4x8TB WD Red Plus, which uses 3.4W idle, and assuming 20W for the NAS it's at ~34W (measured 35W). Mac Mini uses 4.6W idle (headless). POE consumption (measured by switch) is 37W (I'm aware there's overhead in AC/DC conversion).
All in all the total consumption at the wall is 96W, but as i have written in another comment, i was 7-8W off, meaning the quoted setup of mine uses 7-8W more than the 66.7W OPs NAS idles at.