truckid:

Here's another option re lowish power H55 boards:

ASUS P7H55-M PRO

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index. ... 4#msg49964

GaryRW wrote: I think the HDD may have gone to idle mode - just dropped to 33w...
& now the monitor has just switched off and down to 30w (as it'll spend most of its time as a monitor off NAS box)

Edit: only 2w in s3 sleep as well

That's great !

What OS are you planning on using for your NAS ?

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