Low power customizable NAS?

[Kurt Granroth]

Thanks for the pointers.  Those definitely look more "industrial" than
I'd prefer.  If I did roll my own, I'd certainly want to use commodity
boards.  "Call for pricing" translates in my mind to "if you have to
ask, you can't afford it" :-)

The more I researched this, the more I realized that there are an
embarrassment of choices!  The last I looked (5 or 6 years ago), it was
relatively difficult to construct a silent and low power system with
massive compromises.  Not so anymore.

Now the question is at what level to settle on.  There's the SheevaPlug
(and similar) that use up about 10 watts but need more storage and can't
really handle any notable processing.  Moving up a notch, you can get a
N270 Atom mini-itx system that also hovers between 10-15 watts but is a
bit faster and will typically have a much larger (up to 1 TB) hard
drive.  Then you can move up to an NVIDIA ION system with a dual-core
Atom and now we're maybe in the 30 watt range but this can handle HD
output, if necessary.

Decisions, decisions.  That's why I was kind of hoping that some local
folks would have used some of these systems and could comment on how
well they work for them.

On 10/04/2010 01:42 PM, Kevin Fries 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
>> <mailto: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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