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Mini NASes marry NVMe to Intel's efficient chip

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430 points ingve | 1 comments | 04 Jul 25 15:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | 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. jeffbee ◴[04 Jul 25 19:25 UTC] No.44467174[source]▶
> less power consuming than a desktop

Not really seeing that in these minis. Either the devices under test haven't been optimized for low power, or their Linux installs have non-optimal configs for low power. My NUC 12 draws less than 4W, measured at the wall, when operating without an attached display and with Wi-Fi but no wired network link. All three of the boxes in the review use at least twice as much power at idle.