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If you find something with thunderbolt, you can get an external controller in there via thunderbolt->pcie. But between that power draw, and the draw of the drives, you'll be bumping close enough to 40w that it'd be a wash.

I do this math myself every few months and ultimately, it seems for a large nas/server, 40-50W is about as low as you can idle.




How large a NAS are you talking? My NAS is two drives in RAID1.




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