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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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[–] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

... 100W? Isn't that like a rally bygone era? CPUs of the past decade can idle at next to nothing (like, there isn't much difference between an idling i7/i9 and a Pentium from the same era/family).

Or are we taking about arm? (Sry, I don't know much about them.)

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    I think we need to qualify "idling", my NAS runs bittorrent with thousands of torrents, so it's never really "idle", it just isn't always doing intensive processing such as transcoding.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    All devices on the computer consume power.

    The CPU being the largest in this context. Older processors usually don't have as aggressive throttling as modern ones for low power scenarios.

    Similarly, the "power per watt" of newer processors is incredibly high in comparison, meaning they can operate at much lower power levels while running the same workload.

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