Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days agoIdle. Under load a bit more. It’s a mobile chipset, so it is efficient. Not as powerful as a desktop for sure but totally handles my basic workloads.
lectricleopard@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Ok. R5 3600, rtx 3070, and 4 spinning drives. Idles at 62W. 80W under normal load (2 concurrent streams). This is a hilariously over specced NAS. This is all 2nd or 3rd life pc parts (outside of the spinning rust), so financially speaking I’m happy with the result.
The long term goal is to use it as a homelab separate from anything I need to work all the time. I want to try running some LLMs locally and use it to control some home automation stuff. That’ll stress it.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
That’s pretty good though! I kept reading about it how much power video cards draw. I need to get some measurements in under various load with mine. The big part is obviously drives.