Hello I would like to know you opinion on how to make my "new" FreeNas build consume a reasonable amount of power. (I'm 16 so I don't pay for the power but I hate waste and turning my room into a furnace)
I'm going use it primarily for backups twice a week so I don't need it on all the time but I heard that powering on and off causes the drives to where out faster. And it would be nice to have imitate access to my files.
Right now my NAS is in a dell 690 which is 10+ years old, and so uses power hungry components, and my first option is making a auto-shutdown CRON job and using wake on lan commands to make it turn on.
Specs:
8*1gb DDR2 FB dimms
1*X3xxx xeon
1*4tb WD 5400 rpm Blue
1*4tb 7200 rpm HGST Deckstar
1*propitiatory dell PSU
My other option is buying a new CPU, motherboard, and ram (I have a case and a bronze power supply) and leaving it on 24/7
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/GyPcVY
So what will be the best course of action? And does turning of a FreeNAS build flash the ram's parity data?
I'm going use it primarily for backups twice a week so I don't need it on all the time but I heard that powering on and off causes the drives to where out faster. And it would be nice to have imitate access to my files.
Right now my NAS is in a dell 690 which is 10+ years old, and so uses power hungry components, and my first option is making a auto-shutdown CRON job and using wake on lan commands to make it turn on.
Specs:
8*1gb DDR2 FB dimms
1*X3xxx xeon
1*4tb WD 5400 rpm Blue
1*4tb 7200 rpm HGST Deckstar
1*propitiatory dell PSU
My other option is buying a new CPU, motherboard, and ram (I have a case and a bronze power supply) and leaving it on 24/7
https://pcpartpicker.com/list/GyPcVY
So what will be the best course of action? And does turning of a FreeNAS build flash the ram's parity data?