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Pro6 reduction of power consumption
I have several Netgear Pro6 systems. They were upgraded to RaidOS 6.10, Intel E7600 CPUs and 4GB ram and are working great (had to recap the Seasonic power supplies since the caps were bulging). I al...
the Pro6 with E7600 CPUs and no drives plugged in uses 55-60watt.
Are the system fans spinning at full speed when you check this?
The power used by the CPU itself is small fraction of the system idle power. The E2160 should be using only 1-2 watts when idle. Based on your measurements, it sounds like the E7600 idle power is about the same as the E2160. So I don't think you'd save much (if anything) by downgrading the CPU to something slower than the E2160.
A more effective strategy might be to put these NAS on a power schedule (so they are off when you aren't using them). My backup NAS are all on power schedules. Or replace them over time with new ARM based NAS using NVMe drives.
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