{"id":673,"date":"2011-03-16T13:51:55","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T18:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shainmiley.com\/wordpress\/?p=673"},"modified":"2011-03-16T13:54:31","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T18:54:31","slug":"dyi-nas-part2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shainmiley.com\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/16\/dyi-nas-part2\/","title":{"rendered":"DYI NAS: Part2"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was able to spend a little more time gathering some numbers around performance and power usage over the last couple of days so I figured I would share a little bit about what I was able to learn from the build I described in part1<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Power usage:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

After purchasing a ‘Kill A Watt’ from Home Depot, I set out to try and determine how many watts were being drawn by my mini-itx NAS.<\/p>\n

Luckily the ‘Kill A Watt’ is a device that is very easy to setup and use, so it did not take me long to discover the following: the server consumes around 50 watts during start-up. After the boot-up process has finished, the power consumption levels off to right around 34.5 watts. \u00c2\u00a0According to the Kill A Watt, that amounts to less then $3.00 per month…not bad as far as I am concerned.<\/p>\n

Various attempts to lower that usage even further resulted in very little drop in that number, I believe that I could have knocked off a couple of watts had I removed one of the DIMM’s and ran the server with 1 DIMM and 2GB of RAM instead of 2 DIMM’s and 4GB of ram. I decided that having the additional RAM was worth the few extra watts that could be saved.<\/p>\n

Network performance:<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Using a Netgear Gigabit switch and a couple of cat6 cables I was able to achieve transfer speeds of\u00c2\u00a029 MB\/sec over samba between FreeNAS and my Mac laptop. Throughput numbers over my Linksys 10\/100 WRT54G wired network ports were less stellar, I saw throughput of around 7.1 MB\/sec. \u00c2\u00a0The wireless numbers were not as good as I had hoped, however they are probably what I should have expected for a shared 802.11g link, between 1 and 2 MB\/sec.<\/p>\n

Being that this is an ‘archive’ of sorts I can certainly live with those numbers for now, my main focus on this particular project was stability, reliability and redundancy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was able to spend a little more time gathering some numbers around performance and power usage over the last couple of days so I figured I would share a little bit about what I was able to learn from the build I described in part1. Power usage: After purchasing a ‘Kill A Watt’ from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,22,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shainmiley.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shainmiley.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shainmiley.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shainmiley.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shainmiley.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/www.shainmiley.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":713,"href":"https:\/\/www.shainmiley.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions\/713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shainmiley.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shainmiley.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shainmiley.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}