Hey guys,
i recently upgraded my TrueNAS server since my mainboard as well as my power supply died due to a power outage.
I replaced the supermicro X9SCM-F running a Xeon E3-1240v2 with Asrock Rack D1541D4U-2T8R running Xeon d-1541. Besides that I had to replace the "be quiet! pure power 430 Watt" power supply with a "be quiet! BN253 Dark Power Pro 11 (850 Watt)" which I reused from a spare pc. Furthermore I removed the Mellanox ConnectX-3 10Gbit pcie card, since the new mainboard has build in 10Gbe.
The replacement went fine and my new server is up and running but I am really dissapointed regarding the power consumption of this new system.
The old one was using roughly 112 Watts at idle while the new system is at around 130 Watts. Of course, the xeon d-1541 is about 1/3 more powerful than the e3 cpu but I was under the impression that xeon d cpu and mainboard bundles are insanely power efficent.
I already set the c-state in TrueNAS as I did on the old platform (sysctl hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest=C3) but this didn't change a watt.
Is 130 watt during idle just normal or did I miss some important setting?
Best
i recently upgraded my TrueNAS server since my mainboard as well as my power supply died due to a power outage.
I replaced the supermicro X9SCM-F running a Xeon E3-1240v2 with Asrock Rack D1541D4U-2T8R running Xeon d-1541. Besides that I had to replace the "be quiet! pure power 430 Watt" power supply with a "be quiet! BN253 Dark Power Pro 11 (850 Watt)" which I reused from a spare pc. Furthermore I removed the Mellanox ConnectX-3 10Gbit pcie card, since the new mainboard has build in 10Gbe.
The replacement went fine and my new server is up and running but I am really dissapointed regarding the power consumption of this new system.
The old one was using roughly 112 Watts at idle while the new system is at around 130 Watts. Of course, the xeon d-1541 is about 1/3 more powerful than the e3 cpu but I was under the impression that xeon d cpu and mainboard bundles are insanely power efficent.
I already set the c-state in TrueNAS as I did on the old platform (sysctl hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest=C3) but this didn't change a watt.
Is 130 watt during idle just normal or did I miss some important setting?
Best