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Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip

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429 points ingve | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 15:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | 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. CharlesW ◴[04 Jul 25 18:08 UTC] No.44466672[source]▶
> Should a mini-NAS be considered a new type of thing with a new design goal?

Small/portable low-power SSD-based NASs have been commercialized since 2016 or so. Some people call them "NASbooks", although I don't think that term ever gained critical MAS (little joke there).

Examples: https://www.qnap.com/en/product/tbs-464, https://www.qnap.com/en/product/tbs-h574tx, https://www.asustor.com/en/product?p_id=80