Do you think the power consumption matters on your box here? Should you care about the "USB bottleneck"? How do you organize this thing so it's not a mess of USB cables? I kinda wanna make it look esthetically nice compared to something like a proper nas box.
> Do you think the power consumption matters on your box here?
It's actually not too bad; the main "server" idles at around 14W and the power supply for it only goes to 100W under load. The drive bays go up to 100W (I think) but generally idle around 20W each. All together it idles at around ~70-80W.
Not that impressive BUT it replaced a big rack mount server that idled at about 250W and would go up to a kilowatt under load.
> Should you care about the "USB bottleneck"?
Not really, at least not for what I'm doing. I generally can get pretty decent speeds and I think network is often the bottleneck more than the drives themselves.
> How do you organize this thing so it's not a mess of USB cables?
I don't :). It's a big mess of USB cables that's hidden in a closet. It doesn't look pretty at all.
