This is something to consider also the Athlon 2000+ beat the atom overall in power consumption, and the i3 did amazingly well in power efficiency http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/Atom-Athlon-Efficient,1997-5.html http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/d510mo-intel-atom,2616.html On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Kurt Granroth wrote: > 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" >>> >> > 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 >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>> >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss