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Chat | Games | About Back to HN FreeBSD on Aoostar WTR Pro NASby Mr_Minderbinder | 24 points | 2 comments | 2026-09-19 06:55:19 Central Open Source Link | Read Source Here Open on Hacker News Commentsdaymanstep
These NAS machines always have great price and good specs
but when you try to actually run your own OS instead of
their OS you'll always find various issues like power
consumption or fan speed control not working or LEDs not
working or SATA being unstable or some system stability
issue like random reboots or other. Usually you end up
wishing you had just used normal off the shelf
motherboardThat's why I looked into the UGREEN NAS and
ended up deciding not to get it, same reason as all the
other cheap Chinese NAS boxes
| jonhohle
In the FreeBSD section he mentions loading the AMD GPU
drivers lower the power. I have less experience with AMD
GPUs, but with Nvidia cards on FreeBSD I've had to load
drivers, then open the GPU device (/dev/nvidia0) to get
powermizer to kick in. This takes an old Ampere card from
running at full power during idle (p state 0), to entering
its lowest power mode (p state 8). among other things,
this drops the temperature on the card by 15-20° C.
Nothing has to be done with the device, just having an
open file handle to it is enough.On Linux this doesn't
seem to be an issue. Additional Nvidia utilities do this
already.
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