LOW power server

[Jared_1]

Could someone either give me a build that uses very little power that can run Windows or even a NAS enclosure with good performance that also uses very little power.

[InVis]

Do you need ECC?

 

Define "good performance"

[Jared_1]

Do you need ECC?

 

Define "good performance"

I don't need ECC.

 

Good performance would be anything aroun 50MBps or higher. I was looking at https://www.synology.com/en-global/products/RS214 but that still takes a little more power that I want. This is more reasonable but I want even less power if possible: https://www.synology.com/en-global/products/DS214se#spec

[InVis]

Sorry cant help you..  

 

I dont know much about such low end NAS devices, I thought you ment a server that could run windows and could also be used as a nas, but if a RS214 uses too much power - I wish you good luck in your hunt

[Jared_1]

Sorry cant help you..

 

I dont know much about such low end NAS devices, I thought you ment a server that could run windows and could also be used as a nas, but if a RS214 uses too much power - I wish you good luck in your hunt

Hopefully I'll find something.

[unijab]

N3150 embedded CPUs

[dzonidev]

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Well Raspberry Pi can do 50 Mbps, so that's not the best measure of what you need. This synology server is decent and will perform, the fact that it has a 100W PSU does not mean it will use a constant 100W. I expect it to be at around 50-70W which is very efficient. But the server is loud so keep that in mind. At home I run a small network server with a 200W PSU and it's power usage is bellow 100W under load.

 

This is probably the best you can do: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/GsTWhM

 

If you find an even smaller PSU then even better.

[Brenz]

I don't need ECC.

 

Good performance would be anything aroun 50MBps or higher. I was looking at https://www.synology.com/en-global/products/RS214 but that still takes a little more power that I want. This is more reasonable but I want even less power if possible: https://www.synology.com/en-global/products/DS214se#spec

 

You want something that uses less than 20W of power?! You will really struggle to find anything much less than that

[Blake]

Could someone either give me a build that uses very little power that can run Windows or even a NAS enclosure with good performance that also uses very little power.

The HP Micro Servers will be the easiest to meet these requirements.

The G7 uses the N54L. Max TDP is 25w. Max with 4 HDDs spinning would be around 90w total power. normal ussage would put it arround the 45W total system usage, using it as a file server would see 5-10w usage. Runs windows server 2012 r2 fine. these are really cheap now.

The G8 can swap out the CPU for any LGA1155 chip. so you can get so nice low wattage xeons and throw then into it, the 1220Lv2 is a 17w part.

 

Both of these systems have 4 HDD bays, I have the G7 running 4x6tb WD RED drives in Raid5 (i know if a drive fails I am unlikely to rebuild before another drive fails, but I have everything backed up on another server), get about 1gbps Reads 50mbps writes (this is due to RAID card offloading the parity calculation to the cpu, if you want you can throw another raid card in that does the parity calculations, or just use a different RAID).