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'not sure what NAS translates / expands as ... but the VIA=20=20
motherboards seem to be sub-20W ...

Chris



On 30 Apr 2007, at 12:36, lexfordparc wrote:

> You are still going to have to look at power consumption as some NAS
> will use as much power as a PC.
>
> Personally I am thinking of upgrading my QNAP TS-101 (which has been
> very good) to a Synology Rackmounted RS-407. This unit has AD
> integration and consumes from 70 down to 20Wats.
>
> Paul
>
> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Marcus Warrington"
> <marcus.warrington@...> wrote:
>>
>> As part of on going drive to reduce my electric bill (currently
> paying =A3111 a month!) I'm thinking of getting some kind of low
> powered NAS device to use
>> as a server for video and music.
>>
>> Currently all the movies and mp3's reside in the MP3 jukebox
> machine (old 800 Duron running XP + XLobby). If I can move the data
> off onto a NAS then this machine can go into suspend/hibernate mode
> when no one is playing music.
>>
>> Does anyone have any recommendations for a reasonable, cheap NAS ?
>>
>> I'm currently looking at the NSLU2 "slug". Its cheap and
plenty of
> hacks..
>> My main concern is bandwidth.. when playing movies to multiple
> XBOXES
>>
>> Marcus
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