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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS Power Consumption⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  They run a custom vendor-locked distro named QTS, so they're not really as easy to modify as a normal system, I don't think you can even install programs like that.

  I'll definitely bookmark it though if I ever get around to building my own solution, thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS Power Consumption⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I have no idea if it's a QNAP-wide issue, or just some specific models, I haven't bothered to do that much research. I'm guessing that the discs WOULD spin down if you have that option selected if they weren't constantly being pinged a couple times a minute. That constant pinging is the part I can't seem to track down.

  An excerpt from a post I was reading while researching this sums it up prettt well: "700 posts about spindown/sleep/standby not working in the QNAP HDD Spin Down Forum. No one seems to be able to resolve it. Qnap clearly couldn't care less."

  The only solution that I've found that seems to work is to install some other operating system on it, which kind of defeats the purpose of buying a turn-key NAS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS Power Consumption⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  If you can figure out how to get a qnap to spin down its disks, please let me know lol. I've been searching for months and haven't found a reliable solution. I basically only need to access it once a day at MOST, so having the disks spinning away for like 99% of their life sucking down power is something I'd like to avoid. The problem seems to be that even with a perfectly clean slate, no services running, all the system set up in their own RAID0 SSD pool, the HDD's, even with 0 bytes of data on them, are being pinged for access at least once a minute. I'm assuming it's some log being written to, but it's not anything visible in the file system, and I haven't been able to find any solution online, lots of people seem to have the same issue.

  I'm tempted more and more every day to just grab one of those low-power embedded ITX boards and build up a custom rig.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Endangered classic Mac plastic color returns as 3D-printer filament⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I've been building a small 10" server rack and have also been using the bone PLA for the "beige" parts to match my stack of variously-yellowed beige desktops, but yeah, this will be awesome to have "authentic" beige! The bone white is a little too brown/tan if you look too hard.

  I should pre-order some.