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There is a middle ground - either an Intel Atom or Intel Celeron based server - typically use around 10w and you still get niceties like SATA and even PCIe
by philjohn 5y ago
There is a middle ground - either an Intel Atom or Intel Celeron based server - typically use around 10w and you still get niceties like SATA and even PCIe
- easygenes 5y agoAlso plenty of slightly more capable laptop class SKUs that are in this ballpark.
- vladvasiliu 5y agoCan you still find "desktop" motherboards to go with them? A long time ago, I remember there being desktop MBs for the Pentium M.
- londons_explore 5y agoFor an always running thing, choosing a laptop motherboard is a nice way to guarantee all the power saving features will work properly. Most desktop motherboards won't allow the PCI express bus to sleep for example, using an extra ~4 watts, $8 per year in eco-friendly countries. Across the ~10 years your NAS will probably sit in a cupboard, that's $80, which isn't an awful lot, but probably would have let you buy a bigger SSD or hard drive which would have had more utility.
- vladvasiliu 5y agoThat's true, but then again I wouldn't be comfortable with a single-disk NAS... However, for running random VMs, etc, I think a laptop is quite a good proposition.
- ttsiodras 5y agoIf you are OK with external USB drives, I did just that with my Atomic PI [1] (Atom-based, 35$ SBC, 3.5W idle, running Debian on its internal EMMC, with two external USB drivers in ZFS-mirror configuration). [1] https://www.thanassis.space/atomicpi.html https://www.thanassis.space/atomicpi.html
- philjohn 5y agoYou can also get rackmount servers in 1U format with Atom CPU's that support 4 3.5" drives, e.g. https://www.broadberry.co.uk/intel-atom-rackmount-servers/cyberserve-atom-104s https://www.broadberry.co.uk/intel-atom-rackmount-servers/cy...