50W home server

[someone365]

Budget (including currency): 600 CHF

Country: Switzerland

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: NAS, Webserver, VM Host

I'm looking for a home server build that consumes a maximum of 50W continuously and works as a NAS, small webserver for a few friends and me, and for hosting some lightweight VMs in the future.

The requirements are:

• Processor to allow for the workloads
• Gigabit Ethernet
• 4-6x SATA for harddrives
• M.2 boot SSD
• Any fitting form factor
• Low noise level

 

Thanks for your advice

 

[RONOTHAN##]

1 minute ago, someone365 said:

4-6x SATA for harddrives

This can be 50W by itself, without taking into account the CPU, RAM, PSU inefficiencies, etc. 50W max just isn't a realistic power draw for a NAS. 

[someone365]

5 minutes ago, RONOTHAN## said:

This can be 50W by itself, without taking into account the CPU, RAM, PSU inefficiencies, etc. 50W max just isn't a realistic power draw for a NAS. 

Hm, I did not consider that to be that big of a problem as I most likely won't install 6 drives, intended to spin down the drives when unused and won't be using the NAS too intensively. If exceeding the power target with the drives is unavoidable I might go for more solid state drives.

[Blue4130]

3 minutes ago, someone365 said:

Hm, I did not consider that to be that big of a problem as I most likely won't install 6 drives, intended to spin down the drives when unused and won't be using the NAS too intensively. If exceeding the power target with the drives is unavoidable I might go for more solid state drives.

A synology ds918 is under 50w under heavy disk use according to tech power up, but don't expect great vm performance on it.

[drSqu33kins]

40 minutes ago, someone365 said:

Budget (including currency): 600 CHF

Country: Switzerland

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: NAS, Webserver, VM Host

I'm looking for a home server build that consumes a maximum of 50W continuously and works as a NAS, small webserver for a few friends and me, and for hosting some lightweight VMs in the future.

The requirements are:

• Processor to allow for the workloads
• Gigabit Ethernet
• 4-6x SATA for harddrives
• M.2 boot SSD
• Any fitting form factor
• Low noise level

 

Thanks for your advice

 

Yeah a max power draw of 50W would likely be exceeded by the hard drives alone. If you had a system made of components with low enough powe draw to fit this wattage limit, its performance for VMs would not be optimal