Hello everyone, I'm totally new to NAS and I'm looking to build a new NAS with the greenest footprint possible. Hopefully I can be looking at 15watts excluding HDDs and case fans. As to how I derived 15watt - I have a 5 year old atom netbook that draws that little power and it's still alive today, operated 24/7.
I have a bunch of HDDs (80, 120, 300, 500, 1000GB - a few of each) so a prebuilt NAS is not an option as they lack slots and expansion capabilities.
Requisites:
-Ultra low electricity consumption
-Ability to expand (aka having PCI slots which translate to SATA ports/USB ports for ext HDDs)
Questions:
-DDR3 ram prices are expensive now (as compared to mid cycle); would it be better to wait till DDR4 comes and also wait for Intel skylake chips during the tick cycle (shrinking of die/low power chips)?
-Are there already processors and boards that sip little electricity (10-20watts) in the market now?
-Is it possible to configure freeNAS to hibernate HDDs or the system automatically (e.g. WOL) to save electricity?
Thanks
I have a bunch of HDDs (80, 120, 300, 500, 1000GB - a few of each) so a prebuilt NAS is not an option as they lack slots and expansion capabilities.
Requisites:
-Ultra low electricity consumption
-Ability to expand (aka having PCI slots which translate to SATA ports/USB ports for ext HDDs)
Questions:
-DDR3 ram prices are expensive now (as compared to mid cycle); would it be better to wait till DDR4 comes and also wait for Intel skylake chips during the tick cycle (shrinking of die/low power chips)?
-Are there already processors and boards that sip little electricity (10-20watts) in the market now?
-Is it possible to configure freeNAS to hibernate HDDs or the system automatically (e.g. WOL) to save electricity?
Thanks