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The original was posted on /r/unraid by /u/ElBigBad on 2023-09-23 19:37:41.

  1. I went from a 11600k to a 13700k. Average wattage, even with boost limited in unraid, has dropped considerably. 50-60w. I’m really thinking the ASUS TUF boards use a lot of power. Iwent with this board from Microcenter at $150.

  2. Switched to backplanes and a higher wattage UPS. Before then I’d get drive error counts on a couple drives weekly. Few here and there, people kept saying to trash the drives. Ever since I switched to backplanes and a quality UPS (I was on a way too low power one and now have 900w one) I’ve had zero errors on any of my 24 drives for the past two months.

  3. I VASTLY underestimated how much it would help the system by letting the drives spin down. My wattage use dropped in half, the average drive temp is much lower (some were in the 50-54c range when running it 24/7 for 6 weeks downloading at 1g speeds). Surprisingly it doesn’t slow plex down very much waiting for the spin up.

  4. I can’t explain why or what’s different but before the backplanes the system felt “ok” but nothing stellar. Now it’s very snappy and responsive.

  5. Transcoding plex to memory was a fantastic move

  6. I personally like having a dgpu. The CPU is very very capable, don’t get me wrong, but I did notice an improvement in quality of use doing to a dgpu. I can also transcode a download to my ipad or macbook about 5x faster. I know there’s a subgroup that wants to take a .001w cpu and make it work. I get it. But for my use case I love having a dgpu and it’s a small price to pay for a better quality of service for myself and others.

I’d say my average wattage of the system is about 180-200w with 24 drives spun up and the dgpu doing some transcoding. At idle I’m about 115w which I can live with. My main point in the post was the backplanes and good power supply. I truly believe that drives get errors when the voltage fluctuates and they report that making you think you have bad sectors. Per all the people that said I should trash the drives, the error counts should be growing yet even when hammering the drives 24/7 there’s been zero error counts since going backplanes/better power supply. So before you go tossing any drives check what conditions you’re having them operate under.