Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 2 days agoI want to reduce wasteful power consumption.
But I also desire ECC for stability and data corruption avoidance, and hardware redundancy for failures (Which have actually happened!!)
Begrudgingly I’m using dell rack mount servers. For the most part they work really well, stupid easy to service, unified remote management, lotssss of room for memory, thick PCIe lane counts, stupid cheap 2nd hand RAM, and stable.
Still want to stop wasting ~100 watts of power per device though… That stuff ads up, even if we have incredibly cheap power.
oftenawake@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
I use my old pc nas as a 50w continuous heater in my lab-shed which is a small stone outbuilding. Keeps it dry in there!