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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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[–] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

At idle or under normal load? Im tempted to get the killawatt out.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    Idle. 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months 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.

    Edit: so yeah its double yours.

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