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Linux - How to determine the power consumption of attached USB devices (work for QNAP as well)

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While trying to hook up too many USB drives to my Linux machine, I figured the external USB drives may consume too much power.
So how do we find out how much power these devices chew?

Well, using lsusb we can pull a ton of info, including the max power draw of a connected device.

lsusb -v

 

To minimize the info to just device names and power draw, try this:

lsusb -v |grep '\ Device\ \|MaxPower'

 

Example output on my QNAP:

Bus 003 Device 002: ID 04e8:61c7 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd 
    MaxPower               36mA
Bus 003 Device 004: ID 1058:2667 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. 
    MaxPower              224mA
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 1058:0748 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. 
    MaxPower              224mA
Bus 003 Device 005: ID 1058:2667 Western Digital Technologies, Inc. 
    MaxPower              224mA
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
    MaxPower                0mA
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
    MaxPower                0mA
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 1005:b155 Apacer Technology, Inc. 
    MaxPower              300mA
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0438:7900 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 
    MaxPower              100mA
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
    MaxPower                0mA

   
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