Hi, I just built an ubuntu based nas off some old parts lying around the house and my goal was to have a system that consumes 30w or less during idle and 60w max upon heavy use.
CPU: AMD Athlon 64-bit 2650e 15w TDP (really?....)
Motherboard: Abit AN-M2 (No onboard VGA)
RAM: 2 x 1GB DDR2 800
VGA: GeForce 440MX 64MB (I plan to remove this once everything runs fine)
Ethernet: Some crappy realtek - temporary solution (Onboard Marvell doesn't show up in ubuntu)
PSU: Antec Basiq 500w
Drives: 1x4GB Sandisk running ubuntu server; 4x2TB Samsung HD204UI Data (2x4TB in Raid0)
The guide I followed is this
Unfortunately, the kill-a-watt shows 5w on off, 90w on bootup & 55w in idle. I didn't even think about load testing since it failed at idle itself. My first suspect is the psu which is probably the lowest quality. So, I kinda want to run the system off a picopsu (Jonnyguru recommends a PicoPSU 120-WI-25 here with a FSP 19v power brick here
My question is, since I've four hard drives and a 24-pin atx connector on the motherboard, is it possible to modify the picopsu by adding 4 sata power pins and 20 to 24 pin atx adapter? The unit's specs are shown below.
+3.3V(6A/20W), +5V(6A/30W), +12V (6A/72W), -12V(.1A/1.2W), +5VSB(1.5A/7.5W)
Has anyone done anything crazy like this before? I've a bunch of laptop bricks at 19v, so my only cost is the picopsu, just not sure whether I can dissect it up and not blow it up during use.
Thanks in advance!!!
CPU: AMD Athlon 64-bit 2650e 15w TDP (really?....)
Motherboard: Abit AN-M2 (No onboard VGA)
RAM: 2 x 1GB DDR2 800
VGA: GeForce 440MX 64MB (I plan to remove this once everything runs fine)
Ethernet: Some crappy realtek - temporary solution (Onboard Marvell doesn't show up in ubuntu)
PSU: Antec Basiq 500w
Drives: 1x4GB Sandisk running ubuntu server; 4x2TB Samsung HD204UI Data (2x4TB in Raid0)
The guide I followed is this
Unfortunately, the kill-a-watt shows 5w on off, 90w on bootup & 55w in idle. I didn't even think about load testing since it failed at idle itself. My first suspect is the psu which is probably the lowest quality. So, I kinda want to run the system off a picopsu (Jonnyguru recommends a PicoPSU 120-WI-25 here with a FSP 19v power brick here
My question is, since I've four hard drives and a 24-pin atx connector on the motherboard, is it possible to modify the picopsu by adding 4 sata power pins and 20 to 24 pin atx adapter? The unit's specs are shown below.
+3.3V(6A/20W), +5V(6A/30W), +12V (6A/72W), -12V(.1A/1.2W), +5VSB(1.5A/7.5W)
Has anyone done anything crazy like this before? I've a bunch of laptop bricks at 19v, so my only cost is the picopsu, just not sure whether I can dissect it up and not blow it up during use.
Thanks in advance!!!
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