I promised to publish some power measurements of my self made home NAS, so… here they are!
The CPU cores only seems to support the C1 state (loved to use C3 or C6..) for the rest I’m using powerd to throttle the frequency and ‘atacontrol spindown’ for the disks.
When the system is idle and the data disk are spun down:
When all 4 threads (it’s a dual core ATOM with HT) on the system are in use:
When all 4 threads are in use and a benchmarks is running on the data disks:
If you are wondering which components I used then take a look at my first NAS post
Disk performance benchmarks can be found here
