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• Jason2357@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Alpine Linux can boot in a few seconds. Stick to something extremely simple like nfs or samba and nothing else in the boot. Or use suspend to ram with your regular OS.

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  • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Last question; how would I get it to wake when someone’s trying to access a file on it?

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    • tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Maybe you could just spin down/turn off the disks? That will reduce power consumption a lot and they’ll get up once requested.

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      • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        So more like a commercial NAS box and less like a repurposed Dell server.

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    • Jason2357@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You would have to script something based on whatever service is actually being used, or maybe node red? In the past, way back, I used something like this that is just a simple web page that the user has to click a button to start the machine - there are a bunch of these github.com/Trugamr/wol - the web server is on the lan with the NAS so can send the magic packet, but the page can obviously be served over the internet.

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      • AtariDump@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        So, realistically, I’m probably looking for a commercial NAS that’ll spin the drives down when nothing is accessing them and spin them up once something attempts access.

        Because I can’t think of another way to do this.

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