Low power customizable NAS?

[Stephen]

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
<kurt+plug-discuss at granroth.com> 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"
>>> <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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