Re: NAS power consumption - or self-build NAS

[Jon Wilkins <jonpdwilkins@xxxxxxxxx>]

Indeed, there are various options to building my own low-consumption
NAS.

But what I dont know is the conumption levels of the commercial home NASes
(e.g from the likes of Netgear etc).


jon

2009/8/20 Steve <steve@xxxxxxx>

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> The new supermicro mobo x7sla-L or x7sla-h 4w and 8w respectively.
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> With 4 sata ports and an ide for compact flash OS drive.
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> I have the single core L version on order.
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> Steve
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> -------Original Message-------
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> From: Jon Wilkins
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> Date: 19/08/2009 23:03:27
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> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
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> Subject: [ukha_d] NAS power consumption - or self-build NAS
>
> It's time I sorted out my at-home storage, some sort of NAS makes
sense.
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> BUT, as this will be on 24/7 a big concern for me is power
consumption,
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> still trying to keep our base-load really low.
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> Does anyone have any figures for what some of the consumer-level NAS
> devices
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> pull?
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> I know I can build a mini-itx with HD consuming around 20-30w -- but
if a
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> commercial unit will pull less then I might go that way instead.
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> Thanks,
>
> Jon
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