I cannot believe how insignificantly low my power draw is when seeding about 200 Linux ISOs on my Ryzen 5700G system with four 4TB SSDs.

Some time ago, I made a post in which I wanted your input on how I could decrease power[1]. Well, this is the result of turning on all those various energy saving options in the BIOS and some undervolting (all cores set to -30).

Oh, and I also took out all but two chassi fans: the exhaust fan behind the CPU and one above the CPU.

I did try replacing the Gold certified PSU with a Platinum one, but the Platinum one ended up in my gaming rig because the Gold one had more SATA “outlets” and I’m going to need them soon, as the combined Linux ISOs now take up 14TB (and I’m going to continue using SSDs until shit hits the remaining fans).

Thank you people!

  1. https://programming.dev/post/47150919 ↩︎

  • Jul (they/she)@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    4·
    13 hours ago

    If only the upstream bandwidth was as cheap, at least in most of the US. Most of the time the only way to get above 5 or 10 Mbps up is to get a business plan. I recently got lucky and was super close to a new fiber junction on a pole, so I got 1Gbps up and down and more is available, but before that the only option was cable or DSL. Cable was up to 500mbps down and 10mbps up and DSL was up to 25mbps down and 1mbps up. And those are max speeds, reality in a major city with cable having a virtual monopoly for decades is that it’s over-provisioned, so real speeds are only about half to 1/10th of that for most of the day. So reasonable seeding was always impossible if I didn’t want my regular web browsing to be super slow or fail to submit forms data and waiting for the page request to get through to start loading.

    • durinn@programming.devOPEnglish
      5·
      23 hours ago

      It took me more than 30 seconds and a buttload of performance anxiety to realize what the joke is. Noice. Updated the post accordingly.

  • MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zipEnglish
    8·
    22 hours ago

    FYI I reduced my power draw on my server by setting connection limits in qBittorrent so that may help to reduce it further (even at idle). I need to investigate my bios too, just keep forgetting.

    • durinn@programming.devOPEnglish
      5·
      23 hours ago

      SIC. Thank you so much for this and please excuse my laziness. I should’ve pasted the link in the OP. 😅

      Edit: I added the link. 😊