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Shimitar ,
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Use a cheapo laptop, a small factor one, that runs on low power. Thats what i do. I added a usb3 huba and a nice jbod usb3 box with 4 4tb SSDs inside.

My laptop has a broken keyboard and smaller niusances, but runs on very low power and has just the right cpu power.

Also, dont need much bandwith from the nas so usb3 jbod is more than enough for streaming 4k movies at home over hardwired 1gb ethernet. I

TCB13 ,
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Might not be a good deal, usally HP Mini or Dell units have better prices and better specs. You can get those for 100$ with decently modern CPUs, USB 3.0 , USB-C etc. You can find mode models with dual NVME slots, other with 1 NVME + 1 SATA that might be enough for the OP’s use case.

cloudwanderer OP ,
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Can you recommend some devices? Most of the ones i saw had good prices, but not performance relative to power usage. The N100 with its 4 efficiency cores is actually quite good for the price and power usage. Unfortunately most mini pcs with it have limited ports.

I also think, that 2 ssds might be sufficient for the beginning. I’m even thinking of just adding 2 external ssd’s and call it a day for the beginning (one as backup), but that does not scale well.

Ajen ,

Im using a couple HP T730 thin clients. It has a 4 core ryzen cpu, up to 32gb RAM, and a PCIE x4 port (physical x8). One of them is my firewall, with pfsense and a 4 port i310 gigabit ethernet card. The other is a work-in-progress NAS. I’ve got a 8 port SATA/SAS card and I’m planning on printing a HDD enclosure with my 3d printer.

I haven’t measured the actual power consumption, but I’ve seen claims of 10-20W.

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