TS262A - unexpected high power consumption

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I just acquired the latest and greatest version of the TS262, the TS262A.

Overall configuration is:

  1. QNAP TS262A-4G
  2. NVME 512GB disk for system purposes (SK Hynix M.2 512GB)
  3. 2 Ironwolf 4G 5200RMP HDD (ST4000VN006)
  4. 1 GBE connection
  5. Latest version of firmware and QTS

Currently, the system is very basic setup and do not have any additional tasks running, than basic OS.

When I completed the set up, I’ve connected a power meter, to see, how it compares against specs. with following results:

Idle, HDD spining: ~20W

Idle, HDD standby: ~14W

Unfortunately, no official power consumption figures have been released for the TS-262A. However as the only difference to TS-262 is the upgrade to N5095, I would expect similar idle power figures.

Any Ideas on why I am seeing so high figures?

Regards,

René

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Power Consumption: Operating Mode, Typical 29.086 W
Tested with drives fully populated.

ts-264

Power Consumption: Disk Standby Mode 18.288 W

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20 Watts is not much power…