I'm looking for some CPU that is energy efficient in idle and same for Motherboard, where information about power consumption are really sparse. I would like to be about 10W. So can you recommend some motherboards and cpus that are tested to be efficient? I hove done some research and i can't find i...

Does any know of actually more power efficient haswell motherboard? I would like to build me a new nas and info about MoBos consumption is very very sparse

And is there some difference between spindown and idle?

What is power consumption of hdd that has spun down?

Wow, 11w seems great. I would like to build home server based on your build, as the numbers are awesome. Just one, probably stupid question - how much power does hdd consume when it is spun down? Kinda funny, that according to spec LSI2008 hba would consume 6.5w alone, half of rest of the system ove...

I agree that for small high capacity nas this is not ideal - there is no way to swap graphic car space for more hdd slots, but it is still best case for that price you can get if you want small nas

Are there any alternatives on the market for 6 HDD NAS? I would like it to be small as possible and this case still waste much space with 5,25 drive and huge fan, probably even power supply. I found only fractal design array r2 - quite unacceptable design. And fractal design define mini - quite nice...

So 3TB drive will not work in my standard sata controller on MB? I use Win7 and don't need to boot from drive.

Thank you for that link with 5V consumption data.

How much more power do you think will this 350W Seasonic use? I think that awerage power ussage of mb will be 12W and harddisk probably 8-12W. (i will be running them in pairs so i thing two will be sleeping all time).

I'm going to build low cost NAS with 4 3.5HDDs and system on USB or 2.5HDD my idea is to use custom case (about 50 USD in my country), johnstown, industrial 230v to 12V 9A with 30A startup max power suply (25USD in my country) and some scrap parts i have (ram, USB flash disk for system). Main questi...