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 6 months agoLast question; how would I get it to wake when someone’s trying to access a file on it?
tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 6 months ago
AtariDump@lemmy.world 6 months ago
So more like a commercial NAS box and less like a repurposed Dell server.
tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 6 months ago
Why?
AtariDump@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Power consumption.
Plus, I don’t think an enterprise grade server is designed to spin down the disks when they’re not in use.
Jason2357@lemmy.ca 6 months 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.
AtariDump@lemmy.world 6 months 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.