These NAS machines always have great price and good specs but when you try to actually run your own OS instead of their OS you'll always find various issues like power consumption or fan speed control not working or LEDs not working or SATA being unstable or some system stability issue like random reboots or other. Usually you end up wishing you had just used normal off the shelf motherboard
That's why I looked into the UGREEN NAS and ended up deciding not to get it, same reason as all the other cheap Chinese NAS boxes
I ordered a Xyber NAS (N150) back when they were still in stock, wiped the Ubuntu that came with it and built up a NixOS config [1]. The power usage is very good (12W with 2 internal SSDs, bluetooth, wifi and a bunch of services running).
If it dies, I won't be too sad since it was about $210. But it's doing pretty well (24/7) so far.
[1]: This ended up being useful. The built-in eMMC chip that I had installed the OS on gave out after ~1 month of usage and I had to reinstall. Thanks to the NixOS config, it took me much less time.
In the FreeBSD section he mentions loading the AMD GPU drivers lower the power. I have less experience with AMD GPUs, but with Nvidia cards on FreeBSD I’ve had to load drivers, then open the GPU device (/dev/nvidia0) to get powermizer to kick in. This takes an old Ampere card from running at full power during idle (p state 0), to entering its lowest power mode (p state 8). among other things, this drops the temperature on the card by 15-20° C. Nothing has to be done with the device, just having an open file handle to it is enough.
On Linux this doesn’t seem to be an issue. Additional Nvidia utilities do this already.
That's why I looked into the UGREEN NAS and ended up deciding not to get it, same reason as all the other cheap Chinese NAS boxes
I ordered a Xyber NAS (N150) back when they were still in stock, wiped the Ubuntu that came with it and built up a NixOS config [1]. The power usage is very good (12W with 2 internal SSDs, bluetooth, wifi and a bunch of services running).
If it dies, I won't be too sad since it was about $210. But it's doing pretty well (24/7) so far.
[1]: This ended up being useful. The built-in eMMC chip that I had installed the OS on gave out after ~1 month of usage and I had to reinstall. Thanks to the NixOS config, it took me much less time.
On Linux this doesn’t seem to be an issue. Additional Nvidia utilities do this already.