Low power customizable NAS?

[Eric Cope]

I was interested in rolling my own. I looked into the dual core atom boards,
but none were cheap enough to trigger me to walk away from an old Celeron
machine I have.

Eric

On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Kevin Fries <kfries6 at gmail.com> wrote:

> We used to use these great mobos from a company called CongaTec
>
> http://www.congatec.us/qa6.html
> http://www.congatec.us/qcarrier.html
>
> This 95x140 motherboard and QSeven module can handle 2 Data drives.
>
> I know you said you would prefer not to roll your own, but if you do, this
> is an awesome setup.
>
> Kevin
>
> On Oct 4, 2010 2:27 PM, "Kurt Granroth" <kurt+plug-discuss at granroth.com<kurt%2Bplug-discuss at granroth.com>>
> wrote:
>
> I'm looking for a NAS that looks roughly like so:
>
> o Very low power usage (~10 watts or less, ideally)
> o Can run squid or similar proxy
> o Can serve up files like you'd expect as NAS to do
> o Can stream media
> o Can run Linux or, at least, is customizable
>
> Anybody using anything like this already?
>
> I'm not opposed to rolling my own with mini-itx or the like but I'd
> prefer not to.  I do wonder if the proxy requirement is more of a
> deal-breaker since most NAS units try to stay strictly in the storage
> realm.
>
> One thought is adapting a Pogoplug or Seagate Dockstar or the like.  I'm
> not yet sure if that'll do all I want, though.
>
> Any thoughts?
> Kurt
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