Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy
leftascenter@jlai.lu 5 hours agoA desktop running a low usage wouldn’t consume much more than a NAS, as long as you drop the video card (which wouldn’t be running anyways).
Take only that extra and you probably have a few years usage before additional electricty costs overrun NAS cost. Where I live that’s around 5 years for an estimated extra 10W.
Damage@feddit.it 3 hours ago
As I wrote below, some motherboards won’t POST without a GPU.
Yeah, and what’s more, if one of those appliance-like NASes breaks down, how do you fix it? With a normal PC you just swap out the defective part.
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
Most modern boards will. Also there’s integrated graphics on basically every single current CPU. Only AMD on AM4 held out on having iGPUs for so damn long.