Hey everyone,

been a lurker for a while and wanted to start my own lab at home with a true nas server to host my software and VMs on a single machine, combining it with storage for my local network.
I have an old Dell T330 I can take from work for free ( Xeon E3-1240 v5, 32GB ECC ram, 8x3TB SAS HDD)

I set it up with TrueNAS scale, and even when its just idling it's pulling about 140W according to the iDRAC. Do you guys just accept the power consumption or is this system just really inefficient? I know a server obviously isn't designed to be very efficient, however I didn't expect it to be that high just doing nothing, even after adjusting the BIOS and setting everything to the most efficient setting.

Is the power consumption so high because it's an older machine? Or do you have any other advice on how to lower consumption? The disks are SAS, so I sadly can't just plug them into an old office PC and use that as a more efficient alternative