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   翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Oct-2024 03:11:36 JST 翠星石

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   @lamp Laptops are designed to be low power, especially with the screen off and no graphical load, so if you are happy with just one small HDD or usb attached HDD's, they're quite suitable for a low power NAS.
   
   NUC's use even less power than a laptop.
   
   The NIC, or ME backdoor needs to support listening for a wake-up packet and the hardware needs to allow the NIC to trigger a poweron to get wake on LAN.
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     lamp (lamp@kitty.haus)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Oct-2024 03:11:38 JST lamp
     I wonder what's the cheapest way to make an efficient NAS, if your router doesn't have a good USB port or doesn't have a good SMB server (mikrotik 😒).
     
     Raspberry pis and such sbcs are overpriced cause everyone does everything with them. Maybe get an old used high-end AC router that has good hardware and can be flashed with openwrt?
     
     There's also old PCs like old scrap laptops, but they're not so power efficient, so they're not good for idling 24/7, which you would need for time machine backup. Or is there a way to wake on any LAN instead of magic packet?