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I wonder if my system is good or bad. My server needs 0.1kWh.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That's pretty low with 4 HDD's. One of my servers use 30 watts. Half of that is from the 2 HDD's in it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

@meldrik @qaz I've got a bunch of older, smaller drives, and as they fail I'm slowly transitioning to much more efficient (and larger) HGST helium drives. I don't have measurements, but anecdotally a dual-drive USB dock with crappy 1.5A power adapter (so 18W) couldn't handle spinning up two older drives but could handle two HGST drives.