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bee_rider ◴[04 Jul 25 16:35 UTC] No.44465917[source]▶

Should a mini-NAS be considered a new type of thing with a new design goal? He seems to be describing about a desktop worth of storage (6TB), but always available on the network and less power consuming than a desktop.

This seems useful. But it seems quite different from his previous (80TB) NAS.

What is the idle power draw of an SSD anyway? I guess they usually have a volatile ram cache of some sort built in (is that right?) so it must not be zero…

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1. transpute ◴[04 Jul 25 17:27 UTC] No.44466358[source]▶

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> Should a mini-NAS be considered a new type of thing with a new design goal?

  - Warm storage between mobile/tablet and cold NAS
  - Sidecar server of functions disabled on other OSes
  - Personal context cache for LLMs and agents

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Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip