<story><title>The Raspberry Pi can boot off NVMe SSDs now</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/raspberry-pi-can-boot-nvme-ssds-now</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gambiting</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt;Because I want to leave this on 24&amp;#x2F;7 and run various cron jobs etc, so I want the low-power ARM chip.&lt;p&gt;But the Pi4 can use as much as 15W, it has left the realm of &amp;quot;low powered&amp;quot; devices long time ago.&lt;p&gt;I have a very old(2013) HP workstation that I use as a NAS, with a 2nd gen i5, and when running it uses 20W of power, measured by myself.</text></item><item><author>gkfasdfasdf</author><text>Can somebody please just make a NUC-type device that I can purchase as a unit with the following included:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  Rasberry PI 8GB + WiFi + Bluetooth
  NVMe &amp;gt;= 128gb
  Power supply appropriate for PI+NVMe (3.5A perhaps?)
  Case with appropriate cooling
  Ubuntu &amp;gt;= 20.04
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
I would pay up to $200 USD for such a product. Why not an intel NUC? Because I want to leave this on 24&amp;#x2F;7 and run various cron jobs etc, so I want the low-power ARM chip.&lt;p&gt;Yes I can build it myself, but shopping for, gathering all the parts etc is time consuming and I&amp;#x27;d rather be writing my apps etc to run on the device instead...&lt;p&gt;EDIT: formatting</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>geerlingguy</author><text>It can use as much as 15W under heavy load, but most of my Pi 4-based projects seem to idle around 3-5W.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Raspberry Pi can boot off NVMe SSDs now</title><url>https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2021/raspberry-pi-can-boot-nvme-ssds-now</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>gambiting</author><text>&amp;gt;&amp;gt;Because I want to leave this on 24&amp;#x2F;7 and run various cron jobs etc, so I want the low-power ARM chip.&lt;p&gt;But the Pi4 can use as much as 15W, it has left the realm of &amp;quot;low powered&amp;quot; devices long time ago.&lt;p&gt;I have a very old(2013) HP workstation that I use as a NAS, with a 2nd gen i5, and when running it uses 20W of power, measured by myself.</text></item><item><author>gkfasdfasdf</author><text>Can somebody please just make a NUC-type device that I can purchase as a unit with the following included:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  Rasberry PI 8GB + WiFi + Bluetooth
  NVMe &amp;gt;= 128gb
  Power supply appropriate for PI+NVMe (3.5A perhaps?)
  Case with appropriate cooling
  Ubuntu &amp;gt;= 20.04
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
I would pay up to $200 USD for such a product. Why not an intel NUC? Because I want to leave this on 24&amp;#x2F;7 and run various cron jobs etc, so I want the low-power ARM chip.&lt;p&gt;Yes I can build it myself, but shopping for, gathering all the parts etc is time consuming and I&amp;#x27;d rather be writing my apps etc to run on the device instead...&lt;p&gt;EDIT: formatting</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Decabytes</author><text>In the video linked below at 6:55 he says the PI can consume up to 10 watts at peak. Referencing the Raspberry pi documentation^1 it says that the PI 4 consumes 600mA of power at typical bare board consumption. Looking at intel Ark^2 for a i5 sandy bridge shows a TDP of 95W. So it has the capability of pulling far more watts. Sure the Intel computer is much more powerful than the PI 4, but just as your computer is only using 20 watts of power in a NAS setting, the pi will probably be pulling far less than  10watts, especially when idling. So while not the lowest power you can get, still an incredible amount ratio for performance to power. I suspect that for a pi4 running 24&amp;#x2F;7 with cron jobs, the wattage will be far lower than what an older intel CPU would pull, but this is just a theory, I&amp;#x27;d have to have the parts myself to test it out&lt;p&gt;1.&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.raspberrypi.org&amp;#x2F;documentation&amp;#x2F;hardware&amp;#x2F;raspberrypi&amp;#x2F;power&amp;#x2F;README.md&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.raspberrypi.org&amp;#x2F;documentation&amp;#x2F;hardware&amp;#x2F;raspberry...&lt;/a&gt;
2. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ark.intel.com&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;www&amp;#x2F;us&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;ark&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;52207&amp;#x2F;intel-core-i5-2400-processor-6m-cache-up-to-3-40-ghz.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ark.intel.com&amp;#x2F;content&amp;#x2F;www&amp;#x2F;us&amp;#x2F;en&amp;#x2F;ark&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;52207&amp;#x2F;i...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>