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Re:The Raspberry Pi can boot off NVMe SSDs now by derefr on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @06:21PM (#26561076)
Aren’t most NASes ARM-based? While they don’t usually support NVMe, they do support SATA SSDs (which would max out at the same speed the Pi’s single-PCIe-lane NVMe gets you.)

Usually NASes are thought of as not too power efficient; but that’s because of the HDDs in them. Remove the spinning rust, remove the problem.

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Re:The Raspberry Pi can boot off NVMe SSDs now by btgeekboy on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @06:43PM (#26561280)
Agree. Lots of Synology/QNAP devices out there that are designed to be a NAS in form factor but also support things like VMs, containers, and the like. Some of them even do support NVM.
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Re:The Raspberry Pi can boot off NVMe SSDs now by Wohlf on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @06:50PM (#26561353)
Depends, most I've seen are low power Intel but the power consumption should be roughly the same.
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Re:The Raspberry Pi can boot off NVMe SSDs now by geerlingguy on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @07:51PM (#26561844)
I've been testing an Asustor (latest gen) vs Pi NAS and all-in they use almost identical power at idle and at full tilt (drives included).

Surprised me since the NAS is running an Intel processor.

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