I am seeding from an AMD Ryzen 7 5700G system and with all the peripherals turned off and disconnected, instantaneous load was about 65 watts, until I undervolted it (negative 30, all cores), after which it has been fluctuating around 60 watts.

I'd like to keep seeding indefinitely - of course, my all time share ratio is at around 12 for now - but I'd like to use less energy and spend less money on it - even though the cost difference will be negligible, I guess.

Questions

Do you have any recommendations on what hardware to switch to?
Or any suggestions on further tweaking the power setting's in the BIOS? For now, I'm using AMD's AI solution for undervolting (PBO or Curve Optimizer or whatever it's called?), but there is for instance also the actual overclocking menu, which would force settings on the CPU.
What do you think about putting a single board computer inside my desktop (the chassi is HUGE) and somehow hooking up my four 4TB 2.5 inch torrenting SSDs to it? Possibly still powering them with my desktop's PSU? And running the client (qBittorrent) on the SBC?

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[–] 7toed@midwest.social 1 points 2 months ago

Ive been sitting on some Orange Pi RiscV and ARM boards I'm hoping to turn into an arr stack soon here. My first task is to build a raidz1 from an existing mirror with about 2 of 8TB capacity, so it will take a minute.

Im going to be setting up Open Media Vault on an OrangePi RV2, which has 2 m.2 ports, one I have as cache and the other with a 9 sata adapter I'm yet to trial. Ideally this will be able to run off a larger lead acid battery and solar system for an extended period of time, just as a gimick.