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1. jonhohle · 1789914202 · focus · HN ↗

   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.

2. iluvcommunism · 1789914397 · focus · HN ↗

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3. daymanstep · 1789915747 · focus · HN ↗

   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

   1. aktau · 1789924816 · focus · HN ↗

      Anecdata, but still:

      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.

   2. close04 · 1789928565 · focus · HN ↗

      I'm running Linux on a UGREEN NAS without a problem from the OS perspective. Where most of these machines suffer is the default UEFI config and the cooling. The UGREEN luckily gives the option to dig into the advanced UEFI settings (they just left the entire setup open in "engineering" mode so every option the firmware gives is there to tweak) and optimize what the manufacturer defaults, change the power saving options, turbo and power limits, etc. This makes a huge difference.

      But the CPU cooling is still sub-par and no off the shelf replacement. Most of these smaller Chinese NAS brands I tried have this issue, they take very decent hardware and slap the crappiest accessories like cooling and you end up with a hobbled CPU, always pegged at low clock because the temperature spiked to 99C.

   3. acrispino · 1789929186 · focus · HN ↗

      For Aoostar specifically they have not (yet?) offered their own NAS OS. The completes come with Windows 11 Pro.

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