Comment on Simple NAS hardware for home use?
mbirth@lemmy.ml 14 hours agoThere 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 8 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 5 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.
Scrath@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 hours ago
I think I used a Pi 4B, either the 8 or 2 GiB model