Comment on Simple NAS hardware for home use?
BombOmOm@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If you have a desktop, just throw a hard drive or two in it and you have a NAS. Even if you have a laptop, a hard drive in an enclosure will perform this role just fine.
Comment on Simple NAS hardware for home use?
BombOmOm@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If you have a desktop, just throw a hard drive or two in it and you have a NAS. Even if you have a laptop, a hard drive in an enclosure will perform this role just fine.
ThirdConsul@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Thank you, but I don’t want to keep my desktop running. The cooling noise, the electricity. Did I mentioned the fans? They are quiet but I can hear them, I want something that goes silent and wakes up when needed.
mbirth@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
There are some passively cooled (i.e. no spinning fan) SFF Desktops (HP, DELL, etc.) or you could get a Raspberry Pi 5 and stick it into a Geekworm case. Power consumption with these devices should hover around 5W, maybe slightly higher under load. The Desktops most probably support WoL. The Raspberry Pi doesn’t.
Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 hours ago
Also in my experience the raspberry pi isn’t all that great for a NAS considering you are reliant on using USB hard drives and also need a separate powered USB hub for them
mbirth@lemmy.ml 18 hours ago
Which Pi did you try? Since the Pi4/CM4 (can even work with SAS drives) and especially with the Pi5 you can build some nicely performing NASes.
BombOmOm@lemmy.world 1 day ago
A note on the fans specifically, you can buy quiet fans. In general, the larger the fan, the lower the speed and the quieter it is. You can also setup fan curves so they are only doing anything of note when the computer is pumping out heat (given your statements, that would be basically never).
The electricity usage is a pretty notable thing. Though, if you take the graphics card out of a desktop (use integrated graphics, a dedicated graphics card in a server is just wasted electricity) and set the OS to power saver (this mostly means it won’t boost the CPU to higher clocks), it really won’t use much power. Compared to buying dedicated NAS hardware, you may never recoup the energy costs between the hardware you have and the lower-power hardware you need to buy.
kewko@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
Damn 15w is huge? What’s the brand? Does it have smart (WiFi) power on? Does it help if you switch it off?