Summer scale down

Published on: 2026-05-18 19:47 -0500 by hyperreal

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My personal infra is now spread out on three Orange Pi 5+’s. I’m keeping the NAS powered down to save energy during the summer.

My NAS went from a beefy System76 Thelio Major with a ~170 TB ZFS pool to an Orange Pi 5+ with a 5 TB Btrfs volume. I didn’t move any data. My archiving and bittorrenting activities are on hold until the autumn. I’m only backing up my personal files for now.
My public-facing web server that hosts my website, Bluesky PDS, Gemini capsule, and other stuff went from a CentOS libvirt virtual machine hosted on my NAS to another Orange Pi 5+.
I will still be bittorrenting FOSS Torrents and FOSS distributions. That data can fit in a Btrfs subvolume on a 5 TB HDD.

Below are screenshots of the Energy Monitoring Grafana dashboard for the Tapo TP-Link P110 smart plugs. smart_plug_east and smart_plug_east_1 are the plugs that my NAS is connected to. smart_plug_south is where my workstation is connected to. These screenshots were taken two days apart.

Before the scale down 2026-05-16 19:51:53: pre-scale-down

After the scale down 2026-05-18 19:34:58: scale-down