NAS and power usage, interesting insights about snapraid.

It's quite amazing the things you can see when you look closely at the power consumption of devices.

 

This for example: Snapraid in action.
 

 

Don't mind the left bar, as there are some other devices on that meter, but basically what you can see there is the snapraid job starting at 4AM, and completing by around 7AM. It runs across 6x 2.5" SMR spinning rust  and a bunch of SSDs nothing special. This is likely just the read, as very little data changed. Is that the spike you can see from the spinup of the HDDs? Time to plan the snapraid job during the day, when I have solar power. Every little bit helps ;-)

 Cool insights anyways.