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Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip

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432 points ingve | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 15:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | source
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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. layer8 ◴[04 Jul 25 17:40 UTC] No.44466430[source]▶
HDD-based NASes are used for all kinds of storage amounts, from as low as 4TB to hundreds of TB. The SSD NASes aren’t really much different in use case, just limited in storage amount by available (and affordable) drive capacities, while needing less space, being quieter, but having a higher cost per TB.