The Aiffro K100 is an All-SSD NAS with an Intel N100 processor, 8GB of RAM, and 4 M.2 2280 NVMe slots. The machine currently retails for £227. You buy the SSDs separately, and choose whatever operating system you want to install.
For this article in the series, I’m looking at the power consumption of the Aiffro K100 All-SSD NAS.
I’ll see how the NAS (“Aiffro K100”) compares to various small computers. They are the Radxa Rock 5T (“ROCK 5T”), the Firefly AIBOX-3588S (“AIBOX-3588S”), the Orange Pi 5 Max (“Max”), the Orange Pi RV2 (“RV2”), the Orange Pi R2S (“R2S”), Banana Pi BPI-F3 (“BPI-F3”), the Raspberry Pi 5 (“RPI5”). I’ve also included a few Intel mini PCs with the following CPUs (“N95”, “i7-1360P” and Core Ultra 7 Processor 255H “BOX-255H”).
Let’s start with the power consumption at idle. The results are captured in the chart below.
As the chart illustrates, the Aiffro K100’s power consumption is slightly higher than a mini PC with an N95 CPU. But remember, the K100 has 4 NVMes which each consume around 0.6w when idle. The N95 machine hosts a single NVMe machine. Power consumption of the K100 is, as expected, higher than the single board computers. I’m still amazed about the frugality of the AIBOX-3588S Mini PC.
The chart needs explanations to put the results into context.
- The chart measures the power consumption of each system (not only the CPU). It doesn’t include the power drawn by a monitor.
- All the machines have onboard graphics only with the exception of the Orange Pi R2S which has no video output.
- None of the machines have power management functionality built into the BIOS.
- The Aiffro K100, DreamQuest N95 and Intel Mini PCs are using the Power Saver CPU governor. The Firefly AIBOX3588S, Orange Pi 5 Max, the Orange Pi RV2, Orange Pi R2S and Raspberry Pi 5 are using their default settings with no underclocking. At idle the Firefly AIBOX-3588S runs at 400 MHz, Orange Pi 5 Max runs at 408 MHz, Pi 5 runs at 1500 MHz. The Orange Pi RV2, R2S and Banana Pi BPI-F3 run at 1600 MHz.
- WiFi and Bluetooth are enabled on all machines with the exception of the Aiffro K100, Orange Pi R2S and the Firefly AIBOX-3588S which don’t have either.
- The Radxa ROCK 5T is running Radxa OS (a customized Debian 12 with KDE Plasma), AIBOX-3588S is running Debian 12 (Bookworm), the Orange Pi 5 Max is running Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish), while the RV2 is running Ubuntu 24.04.2 (Noble Numbat). The Orange Pi R2S is running Ubuntu Server 24.04. The Pi 5 is running the Raspberry Pi OS (which is based on Debian 12). The Banana Pi BPI-F3 is running Bianbu OS 24.04. The other machines are running Ubuntu 25.04.
Next page: Page 2 – Power Consumption With Light Usage
Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Power Consumption With System Idle
Page 2 – Power Consumption With Light Usage
Page 3 – Power Consumption With CPU Stressed
Page 4 – Electricity Costs / Specifications
Complete list of articles in this series:
| Aiffro K100 All-SSD NAS | |
|---|---|
| Introduction | Introduction to the series and interrogation of the Aiffro K100 All-SSD NAS |
| Benchmarks | Benchmarking the Aiffro K100 All-SSD NAS |
| Power | I compare the Aiffro K100's power consumption to other machines |