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Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy (www.howtogeek.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

A 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.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    as long as you drop the video card

    As I wrote below, some motherboards won't POST without a GPU.

    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.

    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.

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